There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started:
- sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw32 mingw64 git-core wget
+ sudo apt-get install mingw-w64 git-core wget
sudo apt-get build-dep tinc
Other Linux distributions may also have 64-bit MinGW packages, use their respective
package management tools to install them. Debian installs the cross-compiler
-in `/usr/amd64-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another
+in `/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/`. Other distributions might install it in another
directory however. Check in which directory
-it is installed, and replace all occurences of `amd64-mingw32msvc` in this
+it is installed, and replace all occurences of `x86_64-w64-mingw32` in this
example with the correct name from your distribution.
-At the time of writing, the gcc-mingw32 package contains the 64-bit compiler as
-well, in the future this might be put into its own package. Also, a header file
-is missing in the amd64-mingw32msvc include directory, a workaround is to
-create a symlink to the otherwise identical 32-bit version of that header file:
-
- ln -s ../../i586-mingw32msvc/include/getopt.h /usr/amd64-mingw32msvc/include/getopt.h
-
### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
We will create a directory called `mingw64/` in the home directory. We use
mkdir $HOME/mingw64
cd $HOME/mingw64
- apt-get source liblzo2-dev zlib1g-dev
- wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0.tar.gz
- tar xzf openssl-1.0.0.tar.gz
+ apt-get source liblzo2-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev
git clone git://tinc-vpn.org/tinc
### Making cross-compilation easy
mkdir $HOME/bin
cat >$HOME/bin/mingw64 << EOF
#!/bin/sh
- export CC=amd64-mingw32msvc-gcc
- export CXX=amd64-mingw32msvc-g++
- export CPP=amd64-mingw32msvc-cpp
- export RANLIB=amd64-mingw32msvc-ranlib
- export PATH="/usr/amd64-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH"
+ PREFIX=x86_64-w64-mingw32
+ export CC=$PREFIX-gcc
+ export CXX=$PREFIX-g++
+ export CPP=$PREFIX-cpp
+ export RANLIB=$PREFIX-ranlib
+ export PATH="/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin:$PATH"
exec "$@"
EOF
chmod u+x $HOME/bin/mingw64
Cross-compiling LZO is easy:
- cd $HOME/mingw64/lzo2-2.03
- ./configure --host=amd64-mingw32msvc
+ cd $HOME/mingw64/lzo2-2.06
+ ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
make
DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw64 make install
Cross-compiling Zlib is also easy, but a plain `make` failed to compile the
tests, so we only build the static library here:
- cd $HOME/mingw64/zlib-1.2.3.3.dfsg
+ cd $HOME/mingw64/zlib-1.2.7.dfsg
mingw64 ./configure
mingw64 make libz.a
DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw64 mingw64 make install
You need to undo those patches first.
Do not use the `-j` option when compiling OpenSSL, it will break.
- cd $HOME/mingw64/openssl-1.0.0
+ cd $HOME/mingw64/openssl-1.0.1c
quilt pop -a
mingw64 ./Configure --openssldir=$HOME/mingw64/usr/local mingw64
mingw64 make
cd $HOME/mingw64/tinc
autoreconf -fsi
- ./configure --host=amd64-mingw32msvc --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw64/usr/local
+ ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw64/usr/local
make
There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started:
- sudo apt-get install mingw32 wine git-core
+ sudo apt-get install mingw-w64 wine git-core
sudo apt-get build-dep tinc
Other Linux distributions may also have MinGW packages, use their respective
package management tools to install them. Debian installs the cross-compiler
-in `/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another
+in `/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/`. Other distributions might install it in another
directory however, for example `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/`. Check in which directory
-it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i586-mingw32msvc` in this
+it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i686-w64-mingw32` in this
example with the correct name from your distribution.
### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
mkdir $HOME/bin
cat >$HOME/bin/mingw << EOF
#!/bin/sh
- export CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
- export CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++
- export CPP=i586-mingw32msvc-cpp
- export RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib
- export PATH="/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH"
+ PREFIX=i686-w64-mingw32
+ export CC=$PREFIX-gcc
+ export CXX=$PREFIX-g++
+ export CPP=$PREFIX-cpp
+ export RANLIB=$PREFIX-ranlib
+ export PATH="/usr/$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
exec "$@"
EOF
chmod u+x $HOME/bin/mingw
Cross-compiling LZO is easy:
- cd $HOME/mingw/lzo2-2.03
- ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+ cd $HOME/mingw/lzo2-2.06
+ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make
DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw make install
Cross-compiling Zlib is also easy, but a plain `make` failed to compile the
tests, so we only build the static library here:
- cd $HOME/mingw/zlib-1.2.3.3.dfsg
+ cd $HOME/mingw/zlib-1.2.7.dfsg
mingw ./configure
mingw make libz.a
DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw mingw make install
### Compiling OpenSSL
-OpenSSL is always a bit hard to compile, because they have their own
-`Configure` script that needs some tweaking. There is also a small bug in
-e_os2.h in OpenSSL 0.9.8 that breaks compilation with recent versions of GCC.
-If you have this version of OpenSSL, then first download
-this [[openssl-cross-compilation.diff]] to your home directory, then patch
-OpenSSL:
-
- cd $HOME/mingw/openssl-0.9.8k
- patch < $HOME/openssl-cross-compilation.diff
-
-With OpenSSL 1.0.0, this problem is no longer present. However, `apt-get source` will have applied
+OpenSSL 1.0.0 and later is relatively easy. However, `apt-get source` will have applied
Debian-specific patches that break cross-compiling a Windows binary. You need to undo those patches first:
- cd $HOME/mingw/openssl-0.9.8k
+ cd $HOME/mingw/openssl-1.0.1c
quilt pop -a
Now you can compile OpenSSL.
cd $HOME/mingw/tinc
autoreconf -fsi
- ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
+ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-zlib=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
make
### Testing tinc
Since Wine was installed, you can execute the resulting binary even on Linux.
-You cannot do much however, since tinc requires a TAP-Win32 device, which is
-not available in Wine. Still, the following command should work:
+Wine does not provide a TAP-Win32 device, but you can use the `DeviceType = dummy` option to test it without.
+The following command should work in any case:
$HOME/mingw/tinc/src/tincd.exe --help