MinGW-w64 - Windows application build made easy

MinGW-w64 - Windows application build made easy

By Christophe Fergeau
Date: Friday, 12 October 2012 14:30
Duration: 25 minutes
Language: English
Tags: mingw windows

Doing Windows builds of software developed on Linux systems has always been hard and boring, and not many people attempt it.
Thanks to the hard work done by the MinGW-w64 people, it's now possible to do these builds comfortably from your Linux system with your usual tools.

This talk will show you how to use the MinGW-w64 toolchain on Linux, starting from the build of a simple Hello World program to a more complex gtk+ application, ending with the generation of an installer ready to deploy on a Windows system, all of that from your warm and cozy Linux terminal