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Only binutils specific to MinGW-w64 will be explained. For the rest, see Binutils.
MinGW-w64-Binutils is a collection of software that can change the state of Windows binaries or make them executable. These Binutils are specific to MinGW-w64, and using regular Binutils will not work for the proceeding packages.
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Download (HTTP): https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-2.44.tar.xz
Install x86_64 MinGW-w64-Binutils by running the following commands:
mkdir build-x86_64 && cd build-x86_64 && ../configure --prefix=/usr \ --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \ --infodir=/usr/share/info/x86_64-w64-mingw32 \ --disable-multilib \ --disable-nls \ --disable-werror && make
Now, as the root
user:
make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install && rm -v DESTDIR/usr/lib/bfd-plugins/libdep.so && cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/* /usr && rm -rf DESTDIR && cd ..
Install i686 MinGW-w64-Binutils by running the following commands:
mkdir build-i686 && cd build-i686 && ../configure --prefix=/usr \ --target=i686-w64-mingw32 \ --infodir=/usr/share/info/i686-w64-mingw32 \ --disable-multilib \ --disable-nls \ --disable-werror && make
Now, as the root
user:
make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install && rm -v DESTDIR/usr/lib/bfd-plugins/libdep.so && cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/* /usr && rm -rf DESTDIR
Run ../configure --help for a full list of options.
--disable-multilib
: This
option disables multilib support in each architecture. It is not
needed and doing a Wine WoW64
build just uses the binaries from each architecture. Do not set
--enable-multilib
for any
MinGW-w64 package or else problems
may occur.
--disable-nls
: This option
disables NLS support, disabling output diagnostics in languages
other than American English. Omit --disable-nls
and invoke --enable-nls
to enable NLS support.
--disable-werror
: This
option makes it so warnings won't be considered errors.
--target=*
: This option
builds files for the architecture passed to it.
rm -v DESTDIR/usr/lib/bfd-plugins/libdep.so: This command removes an libary that conflicts with the original library provided by the original compilation of Binutils.
Only binutils specific to MinGW-w64 will be explained. For the rest, see Binutils.