[xsd-users] Building windows binaries from linux using mingw64

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Lukas,

Lukas Kall <lukas.kall at gmail.com> writes:

> I am scouting around for a way to build 64-bit windows binaries of a
> software that we are developing under linux that make use of
> CodeSynthesis-XSD. Optimally I would like to have an automated build
> script that we could run on a linux box. Maybe one could use Vagrant
> or similar. I have noted that Fedora have a set of prebuilt libraries
> for mingw64, however not xerces-c, at least not in 64-bit version --
> so I have to compile that one myself.

So you want to cross-compile an XSD-based application from Linux to
64-bit Windows, presumably using the MinGW-w64 toolchain. I think
that shouldn't be too hard:

1. For XSD itself use the Linux binary package. The generated code is
   the same on all platforms and the runtime library (libxsd) is header-
   only.

2. Cross-compiling Xerces-C++ should be straightforward since it
   uses autotools. Something along these lines should do the trick:

   ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
CXXFLAGS=-m64 LDFLAGS="-m64 -no-undefined"
   make

   The -m64 flag is only necessary if your toolchain supports multiple
   targets (i.e., 32 and 64 bit).

Once this is done, you should be ready to build your application.

Boris