====== Develop Windows Applications Without Windows ======

This presentation introduces the audience to the MinGW system, a set of libraries, run-times, and headers that can be combined with [[http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils|GNU Binutils]] and [[http://gcc.gnu.org/|GCC]] cross-compilers to set up a complete cross-compilation environment allowing a developer to develop whole Win32 applications and DLLs from the comfort of their UNIX desktop.

Linux support **patch** to **w32api** referenced by presentation: {{talks:w32api.patch|w32api.patch}}

The presentation: {{talks:mingw32-development.pdf|mingw32-development.pdf}}

The example sources from the presentation:
  - {{talks:dev-mingw:ex1.tar.bz2|ex1.tar.bz2}}
  - {{talks:dev-mingw:ex2.tar.bz2|ex2.tar.bz2}}
  - {{talks:dev-mingw:ex3.tar.bz2|ex3.tar.bz2}}
  - {{talks:dev-mingw:ex4.tar.bz2|ex4.tar.bz2}}

For step-by-step instructions on building the cross-compile tools, visit my [[:projects:mingw32-cross-compiler|MinGW Cross Compiler Page]].


===== Schedule =====

I recently presented this talk to the [[http://www.centralug.org|CentraLUG chapter]] of the [[http://www.gnhlug.org/|GNHLUG]] at a meeting on April 7th, 7:00PM in Concord, NH (at the NHTI main library).

The full announcement is here: [[http://mail.gnhlug.org/pipermail/gnhlug-announce/2008-March/000553.html]]

===== Links =====

Here are some helpful links that are referenced in the presentation:
  * Main MinGW site: [[http://www.mingw.org/]]
  * GCC [[http://gcc.gnu.org/]]
  * Binutils [[http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/]]
  * Drmingw debugger [[http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/]]
  * Gnuwin32 - Native Win32 Binaries for popular FOSS - [[http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/]]
  * distcc [[http://distcc.samba.org/]]
  * pkg-config [[http://pkg-config.sourceforge.net/]]

~~DISCUSSION~~