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

[Lawrence Rust]

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 15:31 +0200, Markus Mattinen wrote:
[snip]
> >> I tried it on a 32-bit Arch Linux installation within Virtualbox, and
> >> got the same results - compiling worked fine but the output
> >> executables would just not run.
> >> Then I installed Ubuntu within the same Virtualbox, did the exact same
> >> thing, and this time they work just fine!
> >> Wonder what the problem on Arch could be? i686 optimizations?
> >> mingw32/gcc version?
> >
> > This is the most likely cause.  These are the mingw packages that I'm
> > using:
> >
> > mingw32                 4.2.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1
> > mingw32-binutils        2.20-0.1
> > mingw32-runtime         3.15.2-0ubuntu1
> >
> > /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-gcc --version
> > i586-mingw32msvc-gcc (GCC) 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2)
> >
> > /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-as --version
> > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20
> >
> > /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/ld --version
> > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20
> >
> > How does that compare to the Arch Linux versions?
> >
> >> Now that I think of it, there were also some other problems under Arch
> >> Linux, like not all the files ending up in the correct folders
> >> (mythinstall/win32 only had half of the required files, so I'd have to
> >> copy some over from mythinstall/bin, and I think the installer never
> >> got properly created either).
> >
> > Might be a good idea to build the mingw cross tools yourself for Arch
> > Linux.  See http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LinuxCrossMinGW
> >
> > --
> > Lawrence
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> mingw32-binutils 2.21.53-1
> mingw32-gcc 4.6.1-2

These 2 changes could be crucial, especially the change to gcc 4.6.  Is
there anyway that you could try a mingw package using gcc 4.4 or 4.2?  I
know that both of these xcompiler versions work OK.  I'm not aware of
anyone using mythbuild.sh successfully with mingw/gcc-4.6.

-- 
Lawrence