[Gllug] Windows cross-compiler talk on Saturday

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 15:07:59 UTC 2009


2009/1/26 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>:
> I hope everyone's going to come along and listen to us talking about
> cross-compiling to Windows from Fedora using our fully open source
> toolchain, on Saturday.
>
> I'm going to be writing the talk this evening and tomorrow evening.
> If anyone has any particular things they want me to cover, then do let
> me know.  Such as questions like - Can you use it for commercial
> software?  Can you use it for language X?  What about graphical apps?
> Will you support library Y?  ...
>
> Other than that, it will be a practical demonstration of writing a
> graphical C program and showing how to use the cross-compiler to build
> it, test it and make a Windows installer (all without needing Windows
> of course).
>
> Some background links:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-misc.cgi/fedora-mingw--devel/file/tip
> http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat

My question would be:
Can you compile mysql ODBC driver on a Linux platform and have the
driver work on Windows.
I have some patches for the open source mysql ODBC driver, but no
windows compiler so I cannot test my fixes.
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