mxe vagrant box

This repository contains everything necessary to build a Vagrant box based on Debian buster with a preinstalled MinGW Cross Environment (MXE) cross-building environment.

Instead of building a base box from scratch an existing box is modified and repackaged as described by Nicholas Cerminara.

Usage

1. Modify share/mxe/settings.mk.
2. Install vagrant-vbguest. (type vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest.)
3. Run vagrant up --provision.
4. Put project directory onto share.
5. Enter virtual machine with vagrant ssh.
6. Execute the build command in the project directory in the share directory.

Troubleshooting

Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders.

This error occurs when the host vbguest and client vbguest versions do not match. Type and update the following commands.

vagrant vbguest

Reload when you're done.

Typical build script

Put this file in the project directory where you want to build and execute it with ssh.

#!/bin/sh

MINGW_ROOT=/home/$USER/mxe
MINGW_PREFIX=$MINGW_ROOT/usr
MINGW_TARGET=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static
MINGW_PATH="$MINGW_PREFIX/$MINGW_TARGET/bin:$MINGW_PREFIX/bin"
STD_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11/bin"

PATH="$MINGW_PATH:$STD_PATH" \
  ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I$MINGW_PREFIX/$MINGW_TARGET/share/aclocal" \
  LDFLAGS=-Wl,-S LIBS="-lstdc++ -lws2_32 -liphlpapi" \
  ./autogen.sh \
  --prefix=$MINGW_PREFIX --target=$MINGW_TARGET --host=$MINGW_TARGET \
PATH="$MINGW_PATH:$STD_PATH" make -j`nproc`