sigrok-cross-mingw: Fix broken Windows 64bit decoding (bug #1195).

[sigrok-util.git] / cross-compile / mingw / README

diff --git a/cross-compile/mingw/README b/cross-compile/mingw/README
index a9984dcef5850dfeea4fac3caa3d7e44a0c3c95a..7620f62b824c57f3f95da33ef632b0278c25ec7d 100644 (file)
--- a/cross-compile/mingw/README
+++ b/cross-compile/mingw/README
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Requirements
  - cmake
  - git
  - wget
- - unzip
  - p7zip
  - pkg-config (>= 0.22)
  - sdcc (needed for building the fx2lafw firmware)
@@ -38,25 +37,24 @@ First, get the MXE cross-compile environment for MinGW-w64/Windows:
  $ git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git mxe-git
  $ cd mxe-git
 
-For now we need to build gcc and winpthreads in two steps. First:
+Apply some fixes that are currently required for a proper build:
 
- $ make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static gcc winpthreads
+ $ patch -p1 < mxe_fixes.patch
 
-In src/gcc.mk change "--enable-threads=win32" to "--enable-threads=posix".
+Build all required packages:
 
-Then build gcc again:
-
- $ make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static gcc
-
-We now have a system that supports C++11 std::thread. Now build the rest:
-
- $ make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static glib libzip libusb1 libftdi \
-   glibmm qtbase qtsvg boost check
+ $ make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static.posix \
+   MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/examples/qt5-freeze \
+   gcc glib libzip libusb1 libftdi1 glibmm qtbase qtimageformats qtsvg \
+   boost check gendef qtbase_CONFIGURE_OPTS='-no-sql-mysql'
 
 This will take a while.
 
 See http://mxe.cc for details on MXE.
 
+Note: We're "freezing" the Qt5 version to Qt 5.7.x, since that's the last
+version that supports Windows XP (which we currently still want to support).
+
 
 Building
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