sigrok-cross-mingw: Add required libusb patch for MXE.

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

diff --git a/cross-compile/mingw/README b/cross-compile/mingw/README
index b10c0f06b57a022c0bc0c3cd9bdfdee2e2d4cade..7620f62b824c57f3f95da33ef632b0278c25ec7d 100644 (file)
--- a/cross-compile/mingw/README
+++ b/cross-compile/mingw/README
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ README
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This is a small script for cross-compiling sigrok and its dependencies
-for Windows/MinGW systems.
+for MinGW-w64/Windows systems.
 
 
 Status
@@ -21,28 +21,40 @@ Requirements
  - cmake
  - git
  - wget
- - unzip
  - p7zip
  - pkg-config (>= 0.22)
  - sdcc (needed for building the fx2lafw firmware)
  - nsis
- - MXE
+ - MXE (*-w64-* targets, the *-pc-* targets are not supported)
 
 
 MXE setup
 ---------
 
-First, setup the MXE cross-compile environment for MinGW/Windows:
+First, get the MXE cross-compile environment for MinGW-w64/Windows:
 
  $ cd $HOME
  $ git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git mxe-git
  $ cd mxe-git
- $ make gcc glib libzip libusb1 libftdi qt boost
+
+Apply some fixes that are currently required for a proper build:
+
+ $ patch -p1 < mxe_fixes.patch
+
+Build all required packages:
+
+ $ 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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