Building mingw libs with Debian-to-mingw cross compiler?

(I'm attempting to re-post this; it didn't seem to make it
to the list the 
first post attempt I made on 3/10/06.  Did the moderator not
accept this 
message?  This seems like a legitimate question, if not an
aggressive 
attempt at cross-compiles. -Matt)

I'm attempting to build Boost 1.32.0 libraries using a
Debian-sarge-based, 
mingw cross compiler (build mingw targets on a Debian
system) by running 
bjam under Wine (<http://www.winehq.com/>
).

Is this feasible?  Has anyone done it?  Any recommendations,
tips, or 
suggestions?

FWIW, my project has been using embedded Boost libraries for
several months 
now across 4 platforms, and we've build it on mingw before,
but I now want 
to make the Debian system my official mingw compile
system...and I want to 
re-build our boost libs there...and also build some new
boost libs on 
Debian-mingw that my project didn't save from it's last
build (or at least 
I can't find at the moment).

-Matt


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On Monday 20 March 2006 21:42, Matt England wrote:
> (I'm attempting to re-post this; it didn't seem to
make it to the list the
> first post attempt I made on 3/10/06.  Did the
moderator not accept this
> message?  This seems like a legitimate question, if not
an aggressive
> attempt at cross-compiles. -Matt)

Did you recieve my off-list email? There's some technical
problem -- the 
mailing list software repeatedly asked me to approve your
post, but when I 
tried it said there are no pending posts at all.

> I'm attempting to build Boost 1.32.0 libraries using a
Debian-sarge-based,
> mingw cross compiler (build mingw targets on a Debian
system) by running
> bjam under Wine (<http://www.winehq.com/>
).
>
> Is this feasible?  Has anyone done it?  Any
recommendations, tips, or
> suggestions?

I did experimented with building using borland compiler
under Debian, and IIRC 
compiling worked flawlessy, but linking had some issues. I
don't remember 
exactly though. I did it by just using "wine
...../bcc32.exe" as compiler 
command in Boost.Build V2.

- Volodya

-- 
Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_pru
s.blogspot.com
Boost.Build V2: http://boost.org/boost-
build2
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