Hi Peter,
I noticed that you were the first one that added support to build native Win32 tools using MinGW GCC via:
commit 2f8d396b9302eddcd8d552648e101a46b7a80acd Author: Peter Tyser ptyser@xes-inc.com Date: Fri Mar 13 18:54:51 2009 -0500
Add support for building native win32 tools
Add support for compiling the host tools in the tools directory using the MinGW toolchain. This produces executables which can be used on standard Windows computers without requiring cygwin.
One must specify the MinGW compiler and strip utilities as if they were the host toolchain in order to build win32 executables, eg:
make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser ptyser@xes-inc.com
There are also several follow-up commits that fixed the build errors from time to time:
commit 8b6a4952e6064dc558cb7d5d375990b17491f26f Author: Vladimir Yakovlev nagos@inbox.ru Date: Sat Jul 7 10:05:06 2012 +0000
tools: Fix mingw tools build
mkenvimage does not build due to missed os_support.o and unsupported file modes S_IRGRP S_IWGRP. Tested with mingw 4.2.1 on ubuntu 12.04.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Yakovlev nagos@inbox.ru
commit b050c72d52c4e30d5b978ab6758f8dcdbe5c690c Author: Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org Date: Tue Apr 20 05:49:30 2010 -0400
compiler.h: add uint typedef
Recent crc changes started using the "uint" type in headers that are used on the build system. This subsequently broke mingw targets as they do not provide such a type. So add this basic typedef to compiler.h so that we do not have to worry about this breaking again in the future.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
commit faf36c1437c95e4a86835633d9801c5f6396a3c7 Author: Remy Bohmer linux@bohmer.net Date: Wed Oct 28 22:13:36 2009 +0100
Fix mingw tools build
mkimage does not build due to missing strtok_r() and getline() implementation
Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer linux@bohmer.net
Today I tried to build the Windows tools by following the README, and got build errors.
$ make HOSTCC=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc tools
note: I am running this from Linux. It's not clear to me whether we should run this from Windows natively or cross-compile on Linux.
It seems that this MinGW Windows build has been broken for quite a long time.
Will you address this? Thanks!
Regards, Bin