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user6053405
user6053405

Reputation:

How to cross compile a C SDL program for Windows on Linux?

I have a perfectly working C program using SDL that I can compile with

gcc main.c -o program `sdl-config --libs` -lSDL

The program is simple, it comes up with a black window and waits for the user to close it. No problems or errors. I have MinGW installed and I'm trying to use x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc to cross-compile it; I would like to know how to cross-compile this for Windows on Linux and include the necessary libraries.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2962

Answers (1)

Sijmen Mulder
Sijmen Mulder

Reputation: 5819

You can invoke MinGW’s GCC like your Linux version, but you might need to replacesdl-config with some manual configuration like so:

x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -Ipath/to/SDL/headers \
                       -Lpath/to/SDL/libs \
                       -o program main.o \
                       -lSDL -lSDLmain

You will need to download SDL.lib and SDLmain.lib. I believe they are part of the development zip. (Edit: as noted in the comments, you might not need to use the libs but can just use the DLLs.)

This might pop up a console window when running. Pass in the -mwindows flag to target the Windows subsystem instead.

Upvotes: 3

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