Jay wrote: > Hi! I'm developing a cross-platform framework and now it's time to port > it to Win32. I found that i can compile an executable for a certain > platform specifying -b command-line option however what i found further > just confused me so i'm here asking you this dumb question: how to > compile a pe executable using a linux hosted gcc? I run ubuntu 7.10 and > gcc 4.2.1. Many thanks in advance. You need to build a cross toolchain (cross compiler, cross linker, cross assembler.) Note that gcc is just a compiler, it does not include the linker or assembler which are part of binutils. Just because Linux and Win32 both run on the same ia32 hardware does not mean you can use the same tools, they are significantly different targets/platforms (e.g. the PE assembler directives are not the same as the ELF assembler, the linker is totally different, etc.) The MinGW site has some scripts that will build such a set of cross tools which is a good place to start since there can be a lot of minor details to get right. Also, those scripts will use gcc sources with MinGW patches integrated, which fix a number of things that are broken or unsupported in FSF gcc. Therefore if you have trouble with the scripts, post on the MinGW list. Brian
