Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Difficulty building project using mingw-cross-env

[David Bruce]

Hi Volker,

Thanks a million!  I'll definitely make use of this.  This goes way
beyond what I had hoped to get out of asking for some guidance.

And yes, it would be fantastic for tuxmath and tuxtype to have
sdlpango and rsvg in mingw-cross-env.  I have never been able to do a
successful win32 crossbuild for our programs with sdlpango enabled.

Thanks again,

David Bruce

On 2/14/10, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> > which is achieved by passing the
>> > --with-sdl-prefix='$PREFIX/i686-pc-mingw32' to configure. However, it
>> > still fails with the same error (here at least).
>>
>> I think the real problem is the usage of AC_CHECK_LIB, which is in
>> most cases (such as here) inappropriate. I recommend to use the
>> PKG_CONFIG_* macros instead.
>
> Additional note: It appears that at least Debian doesn't provide
> the pkg-config scripts of SDL_mixer and SDL_image. WTF?!
>
> So although using the PKG_CONFIG_* macros is the easiest and the
> Right way, it is currently not portable. *sigh*
>
>> Note, however, that there might be a bugfix needed in mingw-cross-env
>> to ensure that `i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config  SDL_image  (--static) --libs`
>> really lists all needed libraries.
>
> Additional note: I just fixed these issues. Please pull the latest
> development version of mingw-cross-env.
>
>> However, this is an indepdent problem, and solving that problem will
>> only help when the project uses PKG_CONFIG_* instead of AC_CHECK_LIB.
>
> Additional note: Attached is a proposal for a patch for tuxtype.
>
> With that patch and the most recent mingw-cross-env, you should be
> able to build your programs via:
>
>     ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --without-sdlpango --without-rsvg
>
>
> Also, feel free to propose the addition of "sdlpango" and "rsvg"
> to mingw-cross-env in case you need them.
>
> Surprisingly, the exact same patch seems to work for tuxmath, too.
> However, tuxmath then fails because of some ICONV issue.
>
>
> Greets,
>
>     Volker
>
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