Building FlightGear - Cross Compiling

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Cross Compiling FlightGear on Linux for Windows using mxe (mingw64)

Started in	05/2015
Description	Windows binaries created using a cross compiler on Linux
Maintainer(s)	hamzaalloush
Contributor(s)	hamzaalloush (since 05/2015)
Status	Under active development as of 05/2015

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MXE is such a joy to work with, the folks on the mailing list are helpful in providing patches to get a fellow's toolchain working, but currently they also have some limitations, because they cannot directly maintain errors produced by the upstream mingw back-end compiler. i have carried a successful build of their static toolchain with some local patches that i applied. now comes the fun part, installing the much sought after shared building toolchain, and i'm having g++ linking errors produced by mingw-g++ upstream, one that i managed to fix and i'm currently dealing with further errors... after that, i don't think build a OSG shared library is so out of reach — hamzaalloush (Thu May 14). Re: [SOLVED] Install osgEarth feature on Win7 64b with FG gi. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

mingw has came a long way, and i think the MXE openscenegraph package (currently at 3.2.1 on master!!), is beautifully maintained, now it builds almost all core libraries dynamically with some argument passing, even as a static target(MXE_TARGETS='i686-w64-mingw32.static'), but it's those plugins again, with their linking errors! i think these are because i'm using the i686-w64-mingw32.static-g++ compiler as opposed to the shared one... — hamzaalloush (Thu May 14). Re: [SOLVED] Install osgEarth feature on Win7 64b with FG gi. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

so as soon as i can get the shared build environment running and solve all of it's dependancies for OSG, i think we can have a cross compiller in our hands! :) i have a local branch that i keep all the various commits and bandaids that i apply in order to make an FG friendly build environment, and who knows, i might fork the MXE project and provide a minimum build environment tailored for FG if they didn't accept my patches for it. — hamzaalloush (Thu May 14). Re: [SOLVED] Install osgEarth feature on Win7 64b with FG gi. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)