Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Using MXE for plugin based applications

[Ronan Trépos]

Hello,

For your information, I have investigated the possibility of using mxe 
for building our software relying on shared libgcc.
I have forked mxe in order to apply very few changes : 
git://github.com/rtrepos/mxe.git
It worked, not completely yet and only for our software, but exceptions 
sent by plugins are now caught by the main application.

Nevertheless I had to use the latest repositories of mingw during Mingw 
installation on windows.
The version of gcc (4.6) provided by the default installation is not 
compatible with the one used by mxe on ubuntu 12.10 (4.7.0) (?)

If you have any comments on this (e.g. is it a bad idea to use mxe for 
this purpose) don't hesitate.
It seems that MXE provides exactly what we need, and even much more, so 
thank you for that.

Best regards
Ronan Trépos


Le 29/01/2013 19:04, Ronan Trépos a écrit :
> Dear MXE community,
>
> We try to cross compile on linux an application, base on a plugin 
> system, for windows users. We have difficulties for managing exceptions.
> I'm not sure actually if we can do this.
>
> On users' windows, mingw32 is installed and is used to build plugins 
> (dll).
> These plugin could raise exceptions. What we have seen is that we 
> should rely on the option -shared-libgcc when building the main 
> application of gcc in order to manage exceptions
> (see e.g. some post about dll boundaries on the net)
> If I'm right, this option has no meaning with mxe since all is built 
> statically.
>
> Is that right ? If yes, is there any other way to do this ?
> If you need more informations to answer this question, please let me 
> know .
>
> Thanks in advance for any answer,
> Best regards
> Ronan Trépos


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