Build Instructions

Dependencies

1. Clone mingw-cross-env from my branch. From here on out, supposing that you cloned it to /home/rpavlik/src/third-party/mingw-cross-env (for example), we will use $PREFIX to mean /home/rpavlik/src/third-party/mingw-cross-env/usr - a directory that will be created once you run a "make" command in mingw-cross-env. It places Linux installations of tools (for example, your cross-compiling GCC, a cross-compiling pkg-config wrapper, etc) in this prefix, and installs Windows libraries, etc. to $PREFIX/$TARGET (where $TARGET=i686-pc-mingw32)

2. In mingw-cross-env directory, run make gcc xorg-util-macros libXaw libXfont xtrans libXau libXdmcp pixman libgcrypt xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-renderproto xorg-scrnsaverproto xorg-resourceproto xorg-xineramaproto libxkbfile xkbcomp to build all the dependencies for xorg-server. This will take a little bit of time.

3. Add $PREFIX/bin to your PATH, if you haven't already. mingw-cross-env does this for its own builds, but you'll want this in your .profile or .bashrc

Getting xorg-server sources

Clone this repository, and check out the most recently committed branch. At the time of this writing, that is the patched-1.11-branch. This should be the default branch on GitHub, so this command should just do the trick in one step:

$ git clone git://github.com/rpavlik/Xserver.git xorg-server

Autogen/Configuring the Build

In that repository directory, configure the build by running these commands, which you may wish to put in a shell script (I called mine doconfigure.sh):

PREFIX=/home/rpavlik/src/third-party/mingw-cross-env/usr
TARGET=i686-pc-mingw32

export ACLOCAL="`which aclocal` -I${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/share/aclocal"
./autogen.sh \
	--host="${TARGET}" \
	--disable-shared \
	--prefix="${PREFIX}/${TARGET}" \
	--disable-dmx \
	--disable-kdrive \
	--disable-xephyr \
	--disable-xfake \
	--disable-xfbdev \
	--disable-xorg \
	--disable-xnest \
	--disable-xvfb \
	--enable-xwin \
	--disable-config-hal \
	--disable-config-udev \
	--disable-dri \
	--disable-dri2 \
	--disable-install-setuid \
	--enable-windowswm \
	--disable-xf86bigfont \
	--disable-xf86vidmode \
	--disable-xv \
	--disable-xvmc \
	--disable-glx-tls \
	--disable-unit-tests \
	--with-sha1=libgcrypt \
	--disable-aiglx \
	--disable-glx \
	--disable-mitshm \
	LIBS='-lgpg-error -lpthread -lkernel32'

Building and Installing XWin

In the xorg-server directory, this script will build and install XWin to your mingw-cross-env prefix, then copy the executables and supporting files to a reorganized, Windows-centric tree (taking advantage of RELOCATE_PROJECTROOT) in XWin-MinGW that you can copy to a Windows machine as-is and run. Again, you might want to put these commands in a script file (I called mine dobuild.sh) for easy repetition.

make install

INSTALLDIR="$(pwd)/XWin-MinGW"
mkdir -p "${INSTALLDIR}"
cp -R \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/bin/XWin.exe" \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/bin/xkbcomp.exe" \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/share/X11/XErrorDB" \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/lib/xorg/protocol.txt" \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/share/X11/locale" \
	"${PREFIX}/${TARGET}/share/X11/xkb" \
	"${INSTALLDIR}"