Cross Compiler Lniux to Win32

[Nekroze]

On Saturday, 15 December 2012 at 19:46:11 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
wrote:
> Am Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:56:47 +0100
> schrieb "Nekroze" <nekroze at eturnilnetwork.com>:
>
>> On Saturday, 15 December 2012 at 13:42:11 UTC, r_m_r wrote:
>> > On 12/15/2012 06:35 PM, Nekroze wrote:
>> >> So straight up, is DMD capable of cross compiling on linux 
>> >> targeting
>> >> windows? I have never used the alternative D compilers 
>> >> (GDC, LDC etc)
>> >> but are they capable of this perhaps?
>> >
>> > You can try: http://gdcproject.org/wiki/Cross%20Compiler
>> >
>> > check this thread for some details: 
>> > http://forum.dlang.org/thread/k75guj$16pk$1@digitalmars.com
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > r_m_r
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks r_m_r, this seems to be what i wanted a canadian-cross 
>> compiler, just didnt have the right term for it. Will have a 
>> look into this. Cheers!
>
> You don't need a canadian cross compiler. The terminology is a 
> little
> confusing, but a canadian cross compiler is if you compile _the
> compiler_ on OS1, run the compiler on OS2 and the compiler 
> generates
> code for OS3. (and OS1 != OS2, OS2 != OS3)
> In your case OS1==OS2==linux and OS3==mingw. This is a normal 
> cross
> compiler.
>
> The instructions here:
> http://gdcproject.org/wiki/Cross%20Compiler/crosstool-NG
> should work. But the gdc windows binaries published by Daniel 
> Green
> have some additional bug fixes which are not part of the 
> official gdc
> source code so you won't get those fixes with your cross 
> compiler.

See now i feel off knowing that there are patches i dont have and 
all...

Maybe i should wait for dmd's win64 support and compile llvm with 
visual studio, i wanted to target win64 really with this project 
and don't care much for 32bit support. This would be fine i guess 
so long as i could get away with being able to compile without 
using the llvm-config tool that gives you the library and include 
paths based on command line input because i am assuming i cant do 
something like that from a visualD or some such project.