{"id":98,"date":"2026-07-19T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demensdeum.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/19\/crosscompile-for-window-on-ubuntu-mingw-cmake\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:16:14","slug":"crosscompile-for-window-on-ubuntu-mingw-cmake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demensdeum.com\/blog\/es\/2026\/07\/19\/crosscompile-for-window-on-ubuntu-mingw-cmake\/","title":{"rendered":"Build for Windows under Ubuntu MinGW CMake"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post I will describe the process of building libraries and applications for Windows using the MinGW32 toolchain on Ubuntu.
\nInstall wine, mingw:<\/p>\n

\n
sudo apt-get install wine mingw-w64\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
After this, you can already build C\/C++ applications for Windows:<\/p>\n
\n
# C\ni686-w64-mingw32-gcc helloWorld.c -o helloWorld32.exe      # 32-bit\nx86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc helloWorld.c -o helloWorld64.exe    # 64-bit\n \n# C++\ni686-w64-mingw32-g++ helloWorld.cc -o helloWorld32.exe     # 32-bit\nx86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ helloWorld.cc -o helloWorld64.exe   # 64-bit\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
The collected exe can be checked using wine.
\nNext, let’s look at the changes to the CMake build, the CMakeLists.txt file, adding MinGW specific things to the build file:<\/p>\n
\n
if (MINGW32)\nset(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)\nSET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-gcc)\nSET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-g++)\nSET(CMAKE_RC_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-windres)\nset(CMAKE_RANLIB i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib)\nendif()\n\n\/\/ \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0441\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043a\u0438 shared dll\nelseif (MINGW32)\nadd_library(FlameSteelEngineGameToolkit.dll SHARED ${SOURCE_FILES})\nelse()\n\n\/\/ \u043e\u0431\u044f\u0437\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u043b\u0438\u043d\u043a\u0443\u0435\u043c \u0441\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0435\u043c\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044f\u043c\u0438\nif (MINGW32)\ntarget_link_libraries(\n                        FlameSteelEngineGameToolkit.dll \n                        -static-libgcc\n                        -static-libstdc++\n                        SDL2 \n                        SDL2_mixer \n                        \/home\/demensdeum\/Sources\/cube-art-project-bootstrap\/FlameSteelFramework\/FlameSteelCore\/FlameSteelCore.dll\n                        \/home\/demensdeum\/Sources\/cube-art-project-bootstrap\/FlameSteelFramework\/FlameSteelBattleHorn\/FlameSteelBattleHorn.dll\n                        \/home\/demensdeum\/Sources\/cube-art-project-bootstrap\/FlameSteelFramework\/FlameSteelCommonTraits\/FlameSteelCommonTraits.dll)\n\nset_target_properties(FlameSteelEngineGameToolkit.dll PROPERTIES\n        PREFIX \"\"\n        SUFFIX \"\"\n        LINK_FLAGS \"-Wl,--add-stdcall-alias\"\n        POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE 0 # this is to avoid MinGW warning; \n        # MinGW generates position-independent-code for DLL by default\n)\nelse()\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
We collect:<\/p>\n
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cmake -DMINGW32=1 .\nmake\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
The output will be a dll or exe, depending on what you are collecting. For a working example, you can look at the repository of the new Cube-Art-Project and its libraries:
\nhttps:\/\/gitlab.com\/demensdeum\/cube-art-project<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/gitlab.com\/demensdeum\/FlameSteelEngineGameToolkitFSGL<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/gitlab.com\/demensdeum\/cube-art-project-bootstrap<\/a><\/p>\n
Sources
\nhttps:\/\/arrayfire.com\/cross-compile-to-windows-from-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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