Trying to fix a bug, stuck at cross-compiling

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Mon May 17 02:41:21 CDT 2010


Alexandru Băluț wrote:
> I'm trying to fix bug 12804, and made some changes to winecfg, and I
> need to test how it works on Windows. I followed the instructions from
Just use the Wine Test Bot to test on Windows:
  https://testbot.winehq.org/
The corresponding wiki page is http://wiki.winehq.org/WineTestBot

> http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilingDLLsUsingMingw - Cross Compiling the
> Whole Tree, but I get an error:
> 
> $ ../wine-crossc/configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
> --with-wine-tools=../build-native --without-freetype --without-x
> [...]
> checking for the directory containing the Wine tools... configure:
> error: could not find Wine tools in ../build-native
> 
> This seems to happen because the ../build-native/tools/winebuild
> directory does not exist.
> 
> When I ran "make tools", in ../build-native, no error occurred. Any
> idea why this happens?
> 
> Is there another way to build winecfg as an exe?
Uhm, you want to test winecfg on Windows? That doesn't make much sense
as winecfg is Wine specific.

bye	
	michael



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