Introduction
------------

MinGW is short for the Minimalist GNU Windows. It's package which allows you
to use GCC and other GNU tools to compile native windows programs.

In this case "native" means programs which don't require extra DLLs like
cygwin DLL. Mingw32 programs use DLLs supplied with all current Win32
platforms. Thus the programs are light weight and easy to distribute.


This document describes by shell commands how to compile and install MinGW
cross development tools on Unix host and how to use it for building windows
version of xine.


Download
--------

  MinGW packages:

    http://mingw.org/download.shtml

    1) binutils (sources)
    2) gcc-core, gcc-c++ (sources)
    3) w32api, mingw-runtime (binaries and sources)

  DirectX headers (tested with version 7):

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=cs&q=win32-dx7headers.tgz
    http://www.google.com/search?q=dx7adxf.exe


Build
-----

In following text are used symbols PREFIX and USER with this meaning:

  PREFIX .... directory of the mingw cross environtment
  USER ...... current user


1. compile binutils

  tar xzf binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src.tar.gz
  mkdir bin
  cd bin
  ../binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src/configure \
    --target=i386-mingw32 \
    --prefix=PREFIX
  make
  su
  make install
  exit


2. add PREFIX/bin into PATH

  ...


3. compile compiler (gcc-core, gcc-c++)

  #
  # it's always good doing things under unprivileged user,
  # this commands ensure write permission to target
  #
  su
  chmod g+w PREFIX{/lib,/i386-mingw32{/,/lib}}
  chown root:USER PREFIX{/lib,/i386-mingw32{/,/lib}}
  exit

  #
  # prepare runtime environment from binaries
  #
  mkdir runtime
  cd runtime
  tar xzf ../w32api-2.5.tar.gz
  tar xzf ../mingw-runtime-3.3.tar.gz
  cd ..

  #
  # compile and install the compiler
  #
  # if you'll want rerun this step, I recommend delete 
  # PREFIX/i386-mingw32/sys-include
  #
  tar xzf gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804-1-src.tar.gz
  tar xzf gcc-g++-3.3.1-20030804-1-src.tar.gz
  mkdir gcc-bin
  cd gcc-bin 
  ../gcc-3.3.1-20030804-1/configure \
    --disable-shared \
    --enable-static \
    --target=i386-mingw32 \
    --with-headers=../runtime/include \
    --with-libs=../runtime/lib \
    --prefix=PREFIX
  make
  su
  make install
  exit

  #
  # set the permissions back
  #
  su
  chmod -R g-w PREFIX
  chown -R root:root PREFIX
  exit


4. recompile w32api and mingw-runtime from sources (optional)
 
  #
  # installing must be into PREFIX/i386-mingw32
  #
  tar xzf w32api-2.5-src.tar.gz
  cd w32api-2.5
  ./configure --prefix=PREFIX/i386-mingw32 --host=i386-mingw32
  make
  su
  make install
  exit

  #
  # installing must be into PREFIX/i386-mingw32
  #
  tar xzf mingw-runtime-3.3-src.tar.gz
  cd mingw-runtime-3.3
  # copying w32api headers into ./include (because of a bug in runtime
  # package)
  ...
  # compiling
  CC=i386-mingw32-gcc \
  DLLTOOL=i386-mingw32-dlltool \
  AR=i386-mingw32-ar \
  AS=i386-mingw32-as \
  RANLIB=i386-mingw32-ranlib \
  ./configure --prefix=PREFIX/i386-mingw32 --target=i386-mingw32
  make
  su
  make install
  exit


5. install DirectX headers and other libraries
  su
  cd PREFIX/include
  # untar dx7headers.tar.gz
  ...
  exit


Using MinGW cross development tools
-----------------------------------

We can build xine library for Windows by this way:

  #
  # configure for mingw cross compiling
  # (the build option is needed only for forcing cross compilation mode)
  #
  ./configure \
    --host=i386-mingw32 \
    --build=i686-debian-linux \
    --disable-freetype \
    --disable-vcd \
    --with-dxheaders=/mingw32/include/dx7headers

  #
  # build system isn't fully prepared for cross compiling, so it's needed
  # manually or by patch disable plugins in Makefiles depending on wrongly
  # detected libraries
  #
  ...

  #
  # compile
  #
  make

  #
  # install
  #
  make install DESTDIR=/tmp/xine-lib-mingwcross
  rm /tmp/xine-lib-mingwcross/bin/plugins{/,/post}/*.a

  #
  # if we want to use xine library in M$ compilers, we will need some tools from
  # M$ Visual C: LIB.EXE, LINK.EXE, MSPDB60.DLL and wine
  #
  # create libxine-1.lib file
  #
  cd <path_where_libxine_is_installed_>/lib
  cp ../bin/libxine-1.dll .
  wine LIB.EXE /machine:i386 /def:libxine-1.def
  rm libxine-1.dll