MXE (M cross environment)
MXE (M cross environment) is a GNU Makefile that compiles a cross
compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as SDL and
Qt. Thus, it provides a nice cross compiling environment for
various target platforms, which:
- is designed to run on any Unix system
- is easy to adapt and to extend
- builds many free libraries in addition to the cross compiler
- can also build just a subset of the packages, and automatically builds their dependencies
- downloads all needed packages and verifies them by their checksums
- is able to update the version numbers of all packages automatically
- directly uses source packages, thus ensuring the whole build mechanism is transparent
- allows inter-package and intra-package parallel builds whenever possible
- bundles ccache to speed up repeated builds
- integrates well with autotools, cmake, qmake, and hand-written makefiles.
- has been in continuous development since 2007 and is used by several projects
Supported Toolchains
- Runtime: MinGW-w64
- Host Triplets:
i686-w64-mingw32x86_64-w64-mingw32
- Packages:
- static
- shared
- GCC Threading Libraries (
winpthreadsis always available): - GCC Exception Handling:
- Default
- i686: sjlj
- x86_64: seh
- Alternatives (experimental)
- i686: dw2
- x86_64: sjlj
- Default
Please see mxe.cc for further information and package support matrix.
Shared Library Notes
There are several approaches to recursively finding DLL dependencies (alphabetical list):
- go script
- pe-util packaged with mxe
- python script
- shell script