MinGW Toolchain

These are my notes for compiling a GCC toolchain using MinGW. Binaries created with this toolchain were tested using the Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7.

These instructions for building a toolchain were tested in the following environments:

• OS X 10.6.6
• Slackware 13.1

Updated: Syzdek 15:07, 11 February 2011 (AKST)

Contents 1 Creating MinGW Tool Chain 1.1 GCC MinGW Toolchain 1.1.1 Directories and Variables 1.1.2 GNU Binutils 1.1.3 MinGW Runtime 1.1.4 MinGW Win32 API 1.1.5 GCC 1.1.6 GNU Libtool 1.2 Additional Libraries for Toolchain 1.2.1 zlib 1.2.2 bzip2 1.2.3 xz (liblzma.a) 1.2.4 libpng 1.2.5 libjpeg 1.2.6 libtiff 1.2.7 PCRE 1.2.8 GNU regex 1.2.9 OpenSSL Libraries 1.2.10 OpenLDAP Libraries 1.2.11 wxWidgets 2 Compiling With MinGW Tool Chain 2.1 Simple Build 2.2 GNU Libtool Build 2.3 Build using configure from GNU Autoconf 3 External links

Creating MinGW Tool Chain

GCC MinGW Toolchain

Directories and Variables

mkdir -p /usr/local/src/MinGW
mkdir -p /usr/local/i386-mingw32

GNU Binutils

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf binutils-2.21.tar.bz2
mkdir -p binutils-2.21_build
cd binutils-2.21_build
../binutils-2.21/configure --target=i386-mingw32  --prefix=/usr/local \
        --with-build-time-tools=/usr/local/bin
make -j 4
make install
rm -f /usr/local/bin/windres
ln -s /usr/local/bin/i386-mingw32-windres /usr/local/bin/windres

MinGW Runtime

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/RuntimeLibrary/MinGW-RT/mingwrt-3.18/mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dll.tar.gz/download
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/RuntimeLibrary/MinGW-RT/mingwrt-3.18/mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download
mkdir -p mingw-runtime
cd mingw-runtime
tar -xzvf ../mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dll.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ../mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
mkdir -p /usr/local/i386-mingw32
rsync -vrac /usr/local/src/MinGW/mingw-runtime/ /usr/local/i386-mingw32

MinGW Win32 API

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/RuntimeLibrary/Win32-API/w32api-3.15/w32api-3.15-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma/download
mkdir -p w32api
cd w32api
lzma -cd ../w32api-3.15-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma |tar -xvf -
mkdir -p /usr/local/i386-mingw32
rsync -vrac /usr/local/src/MinGW/w32api/ /usr/local/i386-mingw32

GCC

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW
wget http://mirrors-us.seosue.com/gcc/releases/gcc-4.5.2/gcc-4.5.2.tar.bz2 
tar -xjvf gcc-4.5.2.tar.bz2
mkdir -p gcc-4.5.2_build
cd gcc-4.5.2_build/
../gcc-4.5.2/configure --target=i386-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local \
        --without-newlib --disable-nls \
        --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --disable-multilib \
        --with-build-time-tools=/usr/local/bin \
        --enable-languages="c,c++,objc"
make -j 4
make install

GNU Libtool

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.lzma
lzma -cd libtool-2.2.6b.tar.lzma |tar -xvf -
mkdir -p libtool-2.2.6b_build
cd libtool-2.2.6b_build
../libtool-2.2.6b/configure --host=i386-mingw32 \
       --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 --enable-ltdl-install \
       --disable-shared --enable-static
make -j 4
make install

Additional Libraries for Toolchain

zlib

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2
cd zlib-1.2.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
       --static --libdir=/usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib \
       --includedir=/usr/local/i386-mingw32/include
make CC=i386-mingw32-gcc LDSHARED=i386-mingw32-gcc \
           CPP="i386-mingw32-cpp -E" AR="i386-mingw32-ar rc" \
           RANLIB=i386-mingw32-ranlib
cp libz.a /usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib/
cp zlib.h zconf.h /usr/local/i386-mingw32/include/
chmod 644 /usr/local/i386-mingw32/include/zlib.h  \
             /usr/local/i386-mingw32/include/zconf.h

bzip2

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
cd bzip2-1.0.6
make PREFIX=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 CC=i386-mingw32-gcc \
           AR=i386-mingw32-ar RANLIB=i386-mingw32-ranlib
make PREFIX=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 install

xz (liblzma.a)

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.1.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf xz-5.0.1.tar.bz2
mkdir -p xz-5.0.1_build
cd xz-5.0.1_build
../xz-5.0.1/configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
         --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-shared \
         --disable-xz --disable-xzdec --disable-lzmadec \
         --disable-assembler
make
make install

libpng

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain and zlib.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.5.1.tar.gz?download
tar -xzvf libpng-1.5.1.tar.gz
mkdir -p libpng-1.5.1_build
cd libpng-1.5.1_build
../libpng-1.5.1/configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
         --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-shared
make
make install

libjpeg

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
tar -xzvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
mkdir -p jpeg-8c_build
cd jpeg-8c_build
../jpeg-8c/configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
        --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-shared
make
make install

libtiff

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain and zlib.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-3.9.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf tiff-3.9.4.tar.gz
mkdir -p tiff-3.9.4_build
cd tiff-3.9.4_build
../tiff-3.9.4/configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
         --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-shared
make
make install

PCRE

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain, zlib, and bzip2.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf pcre-8.12.tar.bz2
mkdir -p pcre-8.12_build
cd pcre-8.12_build
../pcre-8.12/configure --host=i386-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
       --disable-shared --enable-unicode-properties --enable-pcregrep-libz \
       --enable-pcregrep-libbz2
make -j 4
make install

GNU regex

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/regex/regex-0.12.tar.gz
tar -xzvf regex-0.12.tar.gz
cd regex-0.12
CC=i386-mingw32-gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32
make
/usr/local/bin/i386-mingw32-ar ru libregex.a regex.o
cp regex.h /usr/local/i386-mingw32/include
cp libregex.a /usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib

OpenSSL Libraries

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain, and zlib.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0d.tar.gz
tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.0d.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.0d
./Configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 no-shared \
           no-threads no-dso no-krb5 no-asm enable-static-engine  \
           --cross-compile-prefix=i386-mingw32- \
            -L/usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib \
            -I/usr/local/i386-mingw32/include mingw
make
make install

OpenLDAP Libraries

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain, zlib, and OpenSSL Libraries.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget ftp://ftp.OpenLDAP.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/openldap-2.4.23.tgz
tar -xzvf openldap-2.4.23.tgz
cd openldap-2.4.23
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
       --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-slapd --disable-slurpd \
       --disable-shared --disable-threads \
       CC=i386-mingw32-gcc LD=i386-mingw32-ld \
       LIBS="-lws2_32 -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lz -lbz2"
echo '#undef NEED_MEMCMP_REPLACEMENT' >>  include/portable.h
make depend
make
make install

wxWidgets

Depends upon GCC MinGW Toolchain, and zlib.

cd /usr/local/src/MinGW/
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.9.1.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wxWidgets-2.9.1.tar.bz2
mkdir wxWidgets-2.9.1_build
cd wxWidgets-2.9.1_build/
../wxWidgets-2.9.1/configure  --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32 \
          --host=i386-mingw32 --disable-shared
make
make install

Compile with wxWidgets:

 i386-mingw32-g++ wxHello.cpp -o wxHello.exe \
          `/usr/local/i386-mingw32/bin/wx-config --cflags` \
          `/usr/local/i386-mingw32/bin/wx-config --libs`
i386-mingw32-strip wxHello.exe
cp /usr/local/bin/libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll .
cp /usr/local/bin/libstdc++-6.dll .

Compiling With MinGW Tool Chain

Simple Build

CC=i386-mingw32-gcc
CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/i386-mingw32/include
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib
export CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS

${CC} -W -Wall -Werror ${CFLAGS} -c hello.c
${CC} -W -Wall -Werror ${CFLAGS} -c hola.c
${CC} -W -Wall -Werror ${LDFLAGS} -o greetings.exe hello.o hola.o

GNU Libtool Build

CC=i386-mingw32-gcc
CFLAGS="-W -Wall -Werror -I/usr/local/i386-mingw32/include"
LDFLAGS="-W -Wall -Werror -L/usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib"
export CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS

libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c hello.c
libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -c hola.c
libtool --mode=link --tag=CC ${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o greetings.exe hello.o hola.o

Build using configure from GNU Autoconf

./configure --host=i386-mingw32 \
    CC=i386-mingw32-gcc \
    CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/i386-mingw32/include \
    LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/i386-mingw32/lib
make

External links

• GNU Binutils official website
• MinGW official website
• MinGW Runtime at SourceForge.net
• MinGW Win32 API at SourceForge.net
• GCC official website
• GNU Libtool official website
• OpenLDAP official website