Installing and Using the MinGW Cross-Compiler on Mac OS X

07 Dec 2004, 15:13 PST

MinGW supplies header files, import libraries, and a compiler tool-chain based on GNU cc and binutils for building native Windows executables and libraries with no dependencies on third party libraries.

I am using the MinGW tool-chain to compile the Win32 port of OpenDarwin libFoundation. To cross-compile the library on my Mac OS X machine, I created DarwinPorts Portfiles for the MinGW tool-chain.

In this article I'll document how to install the MinGW ports, build a "Hello, World" example, and run the result on a x86 machine using Wine.

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