MinGW

MinGW Special Interest Group

Mission

The Fedora MinGW project's mission is to provide an excellent development environment for Fedora users who wish to cross-compile their programs to run on Windows, minimizing the need to use Windows at all. In the past developers have had to port and compile all of the libraries and tools they have needed, and this huge effort has happened independently many times over. We aim to eliminate duplication of work for application developers by providing a range of libraries and development tools which have already been ported to the cross-compiler environment. This means that developers will not need to recompile the application stack themselves, but can concentrate just on the changes needed to their own application.

Communication

• Fedora-mingw mailing list for all developer, technical, end user questions.
• IRC: #fedora-mingw on FreeNode

People

• RichardJones
• DanielBerrange
• DanielVeillard

Test repositories

These temporary yum repositories are provided for you to test the packages until they are added to Fedora and EPEL:

• Fedora repositories (maintained by Richard Jones)
  Direct links to: Fedora 10 i386 Fedora 10 x86-64 Rawhide i386 Rawhide x86-64
• RHEL / Centos 5 packages, i386 only (maintained by Farkas Levente)

Packaging

• Approved packaging guidelines for this SIG.
• Repository for packages in development (before acceptance into Fedora).
  To check this out, do: hg clone http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel
• All MinGW related bugs and outstanding review requests
• Bootstrapping MinGW when building from scratch
• Windows cross compiler feature for Fedora 11
• Status and versions of MinGW packages in Fedora
• Common rpmlint warnings and errors and what they mean
• List of issues with the current packaging guidelines

Howtos and tutorials

• Example/tutorial showing how virt-viewer application was ported

External links

• The Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) project
• LWN article about the project
• Original RPMs by Callum Lerwick