From 39b01fe8c771163f2f426bc2dca01c4c607d9c70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guus Sliepen Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:13:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that other distributions can use different names for the mingw32 architecture. --- examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn index 2e850c1..3a2eb56 100644 --- a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn +++ b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn @@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started: > sudo apt-get install mingw32 wine git-core > sudo apt-get build-dep tinc +Other Linux distributions may also have MinGW packages, use their respective +package management tools to install them. Debian installs the cross-compiler +in `/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another +directory however, for example `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/`. Check in which directory +it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i586-mingw32msvc` in this +example with the correct name from your distribution. + ### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory. We use -- 2.20.1