Crossbuilding AbiWord for Win32

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Introduction

Abiword for windows can be built on a Linux computer using cross-building. Cross-building has been tested using Ubuntu 8.04/9.04 and Wine. Provided that you have Wine installed on Linux, you can follow these steps to build Abiword for your windows.

Building

• Install mingw. On ubuntu you need the packages mingw32, mingw32-binutils and mingw32-runtime

  sudo apt-get install mingw32

This will install mingw32 with the other two (mingw32-binutils and mingw32-runtime) dependencies.

• Get all the dependencies in place. Unpack all the dependencies to the folder /opt/win32, where the folder will have the sub folders bin, include, lib, and share. Now you will have /opt/win32 as base dir for the win32 stuff.

• Now use the commands:

    source /opt/win32/bin/mingw-env.sh

Go to to source tree and run

   CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/win32/include" ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/abiword --host=i686-pc-linux-gnuaout --target=i586-mingw32msvc

  make

Running

Abiword.exe will end up in src/. You need to copy it to /opt/win32/bin to run it on your Linux operating system using wine. Alternatively you may also copy all the required DLLs to src/. Now you can take the abiword.exe along with all the required DLL to a folder in your windows machine to run Abiword.exe.