Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE is building for Linux?

[Tony Theodore]

> On 14 Dec 2015, at 04:30, Gerardo Ballabio <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> It seems that readline should be added to the list of requirements. Indeed I 
> installed libreadline6-dev (Debian package) and then lua was built 
> successfully.

Thanks, I’ve created a new issue [1] as we may build readline.

> I found another issue: "make download-gcc" doesn't download the packages that 
> are built for the native target. It only downloads pkgconf, binutils, 
> mingw-w64 and gcc, that is, those that gcc explicitly depends on (and 
> itself). It misses gmp, isl, cloog, cmake, mpfr, mpc and yasm (pkgconf is 
> built both native and cross, so it's there). So if I "make download-gcc" and 
> then try to build offline, I fail.
> 
> I suppose gmp and the others were removed as explicit dependencies because 
> they must not be cross-built anymore. But that broke the "make download-*" 
> thing.

We are going to re-introduce explicit dependencies [2] as there are issues with 
implicit deps that I didn’t foresee.

Cheers,

Tony



[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/1060
[2] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/516