I would like to propose a new SIG for Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/MinGW The mission is to provide a MinGW-based cross-compiler and some common libraries so that Fedora users will be able to cross-compile software targeting Windows. The aim will be that, just using a Fedora host and completely free software, you will be able to produce Windows *.DLLs and *.EXEs. The three initial contributors, myself, Dan Berrange and Daniel Veillard, are primarily interested in providing a libvirt client library and some libvirt-based tools for Windows users (so that they will be able to manage Linux systems running libvirtd remotely). However we think that a cross-compiler could have much wider interest in the Fedora community. Debian provide the MinGW cross-compiler & binutils already. We are proposing to go further, by providing not just the cross-compiler & binutils, but common libraries too. For example, building libvirt requires GnuTLS and libxml2. In doing this we would like to leverage the work done already by Callum Lerwick (http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/). We believe that there is no other viable alternative to the cross-compiler (eg. using a 'Windows secondary arch') since any alternatives would require non-free software. Note that this requires shipping Windows DLLs (built from free software, NOT proprietary DLLs). AIUI it is not possible to build (eg.) libvirt.dll unless gnutls.dll was available already. Many aspects of this are open for discussion - eg. naming conventions for RPMs, paths for DLLs, name of the compiler & binutils, should we only target i686, etc etc. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 59 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
