Cross-compiling to Windows

[wintersteiger]

My Windows-Emacs (26) and Flyspell told me that they want aspell 0.60 or up, so I attempted to compile my own as there is no recent binary package available. I use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, Ubuntu on Windows), but this should work just as well on any Linux that has the MinGW cross-compiler in its package system. I needed one source change to make this work; in common/file_util.cpp add #include "common/asc_ctype.hpp", which I believe may be necessary on some other platforms as well?

Then:

sudo apt-get install mingw-w64 
./autogen
sed -i 's/#define PACKAGE_VERSION \".*\"/#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.60.1"/' gen/settings.h
sed -i 's/#define VERSION \".*\"/#define VERSION "0.60.1"/' gen/settings.h
sed -i 's/#define USE_POSIX_MUTEX/\/\/#define USE_POSIX_MUTEX/' gen/settings.h
LDFLAGS="--static" ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix $PWD/win32-install --enable-32-bit-hash-fun --enable-static --disable-shared
make
make install

This produces a working aspell.exe in ./win32-install/bin. The default configuration uses non-Windows directory strings, so a custom .aspell.conf is necessary.

I use the Linux-native binaries to compile/install dictionaries for now as I couldn't find any scripts/Makefiles that would work on Windows. Are there any existing scripts that work on Windows?

[kevina]

Related p.r. #585.