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 GNU Binutils and 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: w32api.patch

The presentation: mingw32-development.pdf

The example sources from the presentation:

1. ex1.tar.bz2
2. ex2.tar.bz2
3. ex3.tar.bz2
4. ex4.tar.bz2

For step-by-step instructions on building the cross-compile tools, visit my MinGW Cross Compiler Page.

I recently presented this talk to the CentraLUG chapter of the 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

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/