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authorDon Bright <hugh.m.bright@gmail.com>2012-01-01 00:06:28 (GMT)
committerDon Bright <hugh.m.bright@gmail.com>2012-01-01 00:06:28 (GMT)
commit0acf0fee5b60c5fd5ae28767849270b8c2e729c0 (patch)
tree0ac39301f21690726d7788c17584c25e4efac968 /doc/testing.txt
parent7860d85daa41bc97bc907a7864986dc2df899729 (diff)
add instr. for out-of-source build for cross-compilation
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@@ -28,12 +28,16 @@ Additional prerequisities: wine, mingw-cross-env
Note: CTest harness will only run under Wine under *nix, not under Win32.
-Follow the instructions for cross-compiling with qmake at
+Follow the instructions for installing the mingw-env cross build system at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual , especially the part
-about including the cross-compiler in your PATH. Then:
+about including the cross-compiler in your PATH. If you do cross-builds,
+it's recommended to use out-of-source builds (mkdir buildx; cd buildx; cmake ..)
+in order to keep your native *nix build separate from your cross-build.
$ cd tests
-$ cmake . -DMINGW_CROSS_ENV_DIR=<mingw-dir> -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=CMingw-env-cross.cmake
+$ mkdir build-mingw32
+$ cd build-mingw32
+$ cmake .. -DMINGW_CROSS_ENV_DIR=<mingw-env-dir> -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=CMingw-env-cross.cmake
$ make
B) Running tests
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