Cross build (linux to windows) with Freetype

[JetSetIlly]

Has anyone managed to cross-build (from Linux to Windows) a static binary with Freetype rendering?

[JetSetIlly]

More background on this and a renewed plea for help:

I'm trying to build a windows binary with Freetype enabled. I can produce a Linux binary and a Mac binary with Freetype font rendering no problem. But Freetype on Windows is escaping me.

Has anyone managed to do this? (I'm using a mingw environment on Linux for cross compilation but I can't even manage a native compilation).

@neclepsio I see from this issue that you have managed compiling on Windows natively #91 Which mingw components did you install?

[neclepsio]

If I remember correctly, I achieved this with msys2 - mingw64 toolchain, mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype and mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config packages.

[neclepsio]

But this was not a cross compilation, it was native on Windows.

[JetSetIlly]

Thanks. I've got it compiling now but it relies on the DLL. I have SDL statically linked but I can't seem to get freetype statically linked. But still, I've made some progress.

[JetSetIlly]

Fixed. It simply needs the "-static" flag in the CGO_LDFLAGS environment variable. I already had "-static-libgcc" and "-static-libstdc++" and this was sufficient for a static SDL compilation. But for freetype the additional flag is required.