[mythtv-users] Cross-compiled win32 binaries failing to run

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Markus Mattinen <thechoris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello mythtv-users,
>
> I've been trying to cross-compile Mythtv master branch (mainly interested in
> the frontend) for Windows.
> Compiling works fine, but the resulting .exe just doesn't seem to do
> anything (it exits immediately without any error messages).
> Cross-compiling was done in mingw32 on my laptop with 64bit Arch Linux and
> Core i5 450M cpu.
> I tried running the .exe in both Wine on the laptop and Windows 7 on my
> desktop (64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, Core i3 2100 cpu).
>
> For compiling, I was following the instructions on this site:
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/mythtv/index.htm
> using the build script in
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythbuild-CURRENT.zip.
> I also tried the other guide that involves installing Mingw32&MSys on
> Windows, but that one resulted in a bunch of "out of memory" errors in make
> and ld.exe (I have 8GB of RAM on the Windows desktop, so must be that
> 2GB/process limitation in 32 bit Windows processes).
> I did eventually manage to compile a release version, but running the
> resulting mythfrontend.exe resulted in the error "The application was unable
> to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application."
> Apparently something to do with failing to load DLLs?
> I never managed to compile a debug version on Windows because of the ld.exe
> out of memory problems.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be welcome.
> If some more information or log/debug output is needed, I can try to get it.
>
> Thanks,
> Markus Mattinen
> thechoris at gmail.com

I can't directly answer your question, but this site has some
pre-compiled if that helps:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davco/