Part 1: tools for win32 development in linux

emerge the following packages to create a development environment:


dev-util/xmingw-binutils
dev-util/xmingw-gcc
dev-util/xmingw-runtime
dev-util/xmingw-w32api
app-emulation/wine


Use the following as a template for win32 makefiles:

CC=i386-mingw32msvc-gcc
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -std=c99 -mno-cygwin -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-mmx -mthreads -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D_WINDOWS

helloworld.exe: helloworld.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -luser32 -o $@ $?

helloworld.o: helloworld.c helloworld.h
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<

NOTE: Now is not a good time to rice out your cflags. Debugging win32 code is hard enough without the compiler playing tricks on you.

To test your new win32 program:

wine ./helloworld.exe


Part 2 will talk about how to create win32 DLLs and import libraries.

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