Re: [netPanzer-Devel] help with compiling to windows executable

[Matze Braun]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Wong, Jeffrey wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  
> I did some modifications with the code for Netpanzer.  Can anyone help tell 
> me how to compile the code into a windows executable?  Thanks.

Well basically you should get a gcc compiler like mingw or cygwin 
(probably also with msys environment). Then you have to get jam, autoconf 
and automake working on the environment. And finally you should compile 
all the dependent libraries (look in the README for a detailed list). 
Finally you should be able to compile netpanzer itself.

That's the theory :) in practice you should be VERY! experienced with this 
stuff since the dependent libraries often need some manual 
patching to get them compiling on windows (esp. glib2 and libxml2 which 
are used on linux most of the time, so few of their devs test them on 
windows :-/ )

An alternative is to crosscompile from linux. This is how we currently 
create our binaries. But this way isn't much easier as well.

Greetings,
        Matze