Just something interesting I learnt today...
# Background
I noticed mingw packages being installed.
so I wanted to refresh myself on the difference between Cygwin and Ming.
Beside confirming my existing understanding that Mingw links against Microsoft libraries
while Cygwin links against its own Posix library, I learnt a new and finer distinction that...
Mingw is a cross compiler that runs in the Cygwin environment.
That made me wonder about mingw cross compiling from other environments. I found this article indicating it was possible...
# Testing
I got it working first with Windows 10 Subsystem For Linux
Try running them on Windows.
You can try it out locally on Windows 10 WSL by doing...
$ sudo apt-get install mingw-w64
$ cd travis-mingw-test
$ ./build.sh
then in a Windows shell...
cd C:\tmp\hello
hello-w32.exe
Hello World!
At the start of today I had no clue Travis could do something like that
and it feels super cool to have done it! ...so just had to share.
cheers -ben
P.S. My WSL platform is...
$ uname -a
Linux BENGINEER 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft #471-Microsoft Fri Dec 07 20:04:00 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
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