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diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4fb8a3d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.windows @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +In order to build this with mingw/msys for perfparser, use the following configure line: + +LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-selfcontained --enable-gnulib \ + --without-bzlib --without-lzma + +That is: +- static-libgcc so that we don't depend on a shared libgcc +- maintainer-mode as we are building from git +- selfcontained to ship the headers needed to link perfparser +- gnulib to replace missing libc functions +- without-bzlib to avoid extra dependencies +- without-lzma also to avoid dependencies + +Check the resulting files with depends.exe. If they depend on any 3rd party dlls, track those down +and check if the libraries are also available as static versions. If so, move the .dll.a files away +to prevent dynamic linking and build again. This is currently about libz and libdl but might happen +with other libraries if elfutils gets more dependencies (hopefully not). + +In order to run the tests, you have to add the libasm, libelf, libdw and backends directories to +PATH, as windows doesn't have RPATH. + +In order to create the .lib files needed to link the elfutils libraries into MSVC-built binaries, +the "lib.exe" command has to be available from PATH. + |