iverilog/mingw-cross.txt

These are instructions for building Icarus Verilog binaries for
Windows using mingw cross compiler tools on Linux.

To start with, you need the mingw64-cross-* packages for your linux
distribution, which gives you the x86_64-w64-mingw32-* commands
installed on your system. Installing the cross environment is outside
the scope of this writeup.

First, configure with this command:

  $ ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32

This generates the Makefiles needed to cross compile everything with
the mingw32 compiler. The configure script will generate the command
name paths, so long as commands line x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
et. al. are in your path.

Next, compile with the command:

  $ make

The configure generated the cross compiler flags, but there are a few
bits that need to be compiled with the native compiler. (version.exe
for example is used by the build process but is not installed.) The
configure script should have gotten all that right.