Cross Compiling Mono for Windows is Out of Date

[Yoshi325]

The "Cross Compiling Mono for Windows" page is horribly out of date.
I would like to update it. Either with a new valid way of accomplishing that goal. Or with a notice that warns readers about it no longer being viable.
Does anyone have any thoughts or input on this?

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[tritao]

I think updating the page with some up-to-date commands for recent distros would be best. I'll review any changes you do related to this and get them merged.

[Yoshi325]

Okay. As far as I can discern, there is no longer a way to do this. Even the script mentioned has been removed from the repository. With that in mind, does this page even need to exist any longer?

[akoeplinger]

Looks like the build-mingw32.sh file was removed by @alexrp in mono/mono@44f87d7. Maybe he can shed some light whether cross compiling for Windows should still work?

[vargaz]

Its still possible to cross compile using mxe, like this:
http://blog.worldofcoding.com/2014/05/cross-compiling-c11-without-going-madder.html
The docs just haven't been updated yet.

[HinTak]

I filed to try to get it back...
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38748

[HinTak]

I was still using it to build my custom 4.0.5.1, so it was still working as for 4.0.

[HinTak]

FWIW, the old script still seems to be working for
4.4.2.11 Cycle 7 Service Release 1 .

I am using mingw 6.2.0 as shipped by fedora.

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc --version
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 6.2.0 20160822 (Fedora MinGW 6.2.0-1.fc24)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[HinTak]

I don't like mxe - the distro already ships the mingw cross compiler, seems to be a waste of time to build one.

[HinTak]

Finished cross-compiling the C part of 4.4.2.11. The resulting binary seems to work fine under wine.

[HinTak]

It is not too difficult to revive the script - you just do

git show 44f87d758e5ca13609b70134f532d2382b3680e7^:build-mingw32.sh > build-mingw32.sh
chmod a+rx build-mingw32.sh

if you are sitting on top of a local mono git clone.