Build from source where HOST is Linux and TARGET is Windows

[wytmoon]

Hi,

I can build from source in Ubuntu 12.04 for Linux targets but I was wondering if I can also build from Ubuntu 12.04 for Windows ( 7 or 8 ) targets?
Is it possible or can I only build Windows targets under Windows hosts?

Thanks for the help

[wytmoon]

Ok. I decided to build VBox on my Win 7 env instead. I followed the build instructions for Windows and started building the source using "cscript configure.vbs".
The following is the build log from VirtualBox and it seems I get stuck on a "Microsoft VBScript runtime error"

C:\Users\wytmoon\Documents\Research\Virtual Box\VirtualBox-4.2.4>cscript configure.vbs --with-MinGW32=C:\MinGW
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Shell inheritance test: OK
Source path: OK
Checking for kBuild...
Found kBuild: C:/Users/wytmoon/Documents/Research/VIRTUA~1/VirtualBox-4.2.4/kBuild (C:/Users/wytmoon/Documents/Research/Virtual Box/VirtualBox-4.2.4/kBuild)
Found kBuild binaries: C:/Users/wytmoon/Documents/Research/VIRTUA~1/VirtualBox-4.2.4/kBuild/bin/win.x86 (C:/Users/wytmoon/Documents/Research/Virtual Box/VirtualBox-4.2.4/kBuild/bin/win.x86)
Checking for Windows DDK v7.1...
Found Windows DDK v7.1: C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1
Checking for Visual C++...
Found Visual C++ v10 with DDK ATL: C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~1.0/VC (C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC)
Checking for Windows Platform SDK (recent)...
Found Windows Platform SDK (v71): C:/PROGRA~1/MIA713~1/Windows/v7.1 (C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.1)
Checking for Midl.exe...
Found Midl.exe: C:/PROGRA~1/MIA713~1/Windows/v7.1/bin/Midl.exe (C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.1/Bin/Midl.exe)
Checking for MinGW32 GCC v3.3.x + Binutils + Runtime + W32API...
C:\Users\wytmoon\Documents\Research\Virtual Box\VirtualBox-4.2.4\configure.vbs(1507, 16) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: '[string: "2 Copyright"]'

I checked line 1507 of configure.vbs but there is no such thing as "2 Copyright" there.
Can someone help me with building for Windows 7?

Thanks for the help

[mhanor]

The vbs script is incorrectly parsing the output from the mingw compiler. You can comment out the whole section that parses and compares the mingw version string.

[lijack]

may be you could execute configure.vbs on windows xp or Create a new file(AutoConfig.kmk) in accordance with the format like
# -*- Makefile -*-
#
# Build configuration generated by cscript configure.vbs --with-DDK=C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1 --with-libSDL=*:\SDL-1.2.14 --with-MinGW32=*:\mingw --with-Qt4=*:\Qt\4.8.0 "--with-SDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1" --with-python=*:\Python26 --with-openssl=*:\openssl --with-libcurl=*:\libcurl
#
VBOX_OSE := 1
PATH_SDK_WINDDK71 := C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1
VBOX_WITH_WDDM_W8 :=
PATH_TOOL_VCC100 := C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2.0/VC
PATH_TOOL_VCC100X86 := $(PATH_TOOL_VCC100)
PATH_TOOL_VCC100AMD64 := $(PATH_TOOL_VCC100)
PATH_SDK_WINPSDK71 := C:/PROGRA~1/MIA713~1/Windows/v7.1
VBOX_WINPSDK := WINPSDK71
VBOX_MAIN_IDL := C:/PROGRA~1/MIA713~1/Windows/v7.1/bin/Midl.exe
PATH_TOOL_MINGW32 := *:/mingw
PATH_SDK_W32API := *:\mingw
VBOX_WITH_OPEN_WATCOM :=
PATH_SDK_LIBSDL := *:/sdl
SDK_VBOX_OPENSSL_INCS := *:/openssl/include
SDK_VBOX_OPENSSL_LIBS := *:/openssl/lib/ssleay32.lib H:/tools/openssl/lib/libeay32.lib
SDK_VBOX_BLD_OPENSSL_LIBS := *:/openssl/lib/ssleay32.lib H:/tools/openssl/lib/libeay32.lib
SDK_VBOX_LIBCURL_INCS := *:/libcurl/include
SDK_VBOX_LIBCURL_LIBS := *:/libcurl/libcurl.lib
PATH_SDK_QT4 := *:/Qt4.8.3
PATH_TOOL_QT4 := $(PATH_SDK_QT4)
VBOX_PATH_QT4 := $(PATH_SDK_QT4)
VBOX_BLD_PYTHON := *:/Python26/python.exe
VBOX_GSOAP_INSTALLED = 1
VBOX_PATH_GSOAP := *:/gsoap-2.8/gsoap
VBOX_PATH_GSOAP_BIN := $(VBOX_PATH_GSOAP)/bin/win32
PATH_SDK_WINDDK := C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1

[xuchao]

i hava the same problem .How did you sovle it at last?