How to compile for Windows on Linux with gcc g

Question

I have written some effects in C    g    using freeglut on Linux  and I compile them with  g   -Wall -lglut part8 cpp -o part8   So I was wondering if it is possible to have g   make static compiled Windows executables that contains everything needed   I don t have Windows  so it would be really cool  if I could do that on Linux

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Suggested method gave me error on Ubuntu 16.04: E: Unable to locate package mingw32

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To install this package on Ubuntu please use following:

sudo apt-get install mingw-w64

After install you can use it:

x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++

Please note!

For 64-bit use: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++

For 32-bit use: i686-w64-mingw32-g++

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mingw32 exists as a package for Linux  You can cross-compile and -link Windows applications with it  There s a tutorial here at the Code  Blocks forum  Mind that the command changes to x86 64-w64-mingw32-gcc-win32  for example   Ubuntu  for example  has MinGW in its repositories     apt-cache search mingw       g  -mingw-w64 - GNU C   compiler for MinGW-w64 gcc-mingw-w64 - GNU C compiler for MinGW-w64 mingw-w64 - Development environment targeting 32- and 64-bit Windows

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Install a cross compiler  like mingw64 from your package manager  Then compile in the following way  instead of simply calling gcc call i686-w64-mingw32-gcc for 32-bit Windows or x86 64-w64-mingw32-gcc  for 64-bit Windows  I would also use the --static option  as the target system may not have all the libraries   If you want to compile other language  like Fortran  replace -gcc with -gfortran in the previous commands

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From  https   fedoraproject org wiki MinGW Tutorial     As of Fedora 17 it is possible to easily build  cross-compile  binaries for the win32 and win64 targets  This is realized using the mingw-w64 toolchain  http   mingw-w64 sf net   Using this toolchain allows you to build binaries for the following programming languages  C  C    Objective-C  Objective-C   and Fortran     Tips and tricks for using the Windows cross-compiler   https   fedoraproject org wiki MinGW Tips

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I ve used mingw on Linux to make Windows executables in C  I suspect C   would work as well   I have a project  ELLCC  that packages clang and other things as a cross compiler tool chain  I use it to compile clang  C     binutils  and GDB for Windows  Follow the download link at ellcc org for pre-compiled binaries for several Linux hosts

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One option of compiling for Windows in Linux is via mingw  I found a very helpful tutorial here   To install mingw32 on Debian based systems  run the following command  sudo apt-get install mingw32  To compile your code  you can use something like  i586-mingw32msvc-g   -o myApp exe myApp cpp  You ll sometimes want to test the new Windows application directly in Linux  You can use wine for that  although you should always keep in mind that wine could have bugs  This means that you might not be sure that a bug is in wine  your program  or both  so only use wine for general testing   To install wine  run  sudo apt-get install wine

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For Fedora    Fedora 18 or greater sudo dnf group install  quot MinGW cross-compiler quot     Or  not recommended  because of its deprecation  sudo yum groupinstall -y  quot MinGW cross-compiler quot

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