Glib Cross Build Errors

[tdineen (Thomas Dineen)]

GentlePeople:

I am trying to Cross Build Glib on Fedora32 for
X86 Windows.

I have the following Glib Build (Linking) Errors
which are shown at the bottom:

1. What do I have to do to tell meson and ninja where to
   find these dlls?

2. I have tried csh and sh: Is it better to use sh or other shell?

libffi-6.dll
libintl-8.dll
libpcre-1.dll
zlib1.dll
iconv.dll

The Dlls are available Here:
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin

Thank You
Thomas Dineen

F30-VM% more x86_Cross_File
[host_machine]
system = ‘windows’
cpu_family = ‘x86_64’
cpu = ‘x86_64’
endian = ‘little’

[properties]
c_args = []
c_link_args = []

[binaries]
c = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc’
cpp = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++’
ar = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar’
strip = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip’
pkgconfig = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config’
windres = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres’
ld = ‘/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld’
exe_wrapper = ‘wine64’

; As Root

meson _build . --cross-file …/x86_Cross_File --default-library static
cd _build
ninja

sh-5.0# ninja
[1/328] Generating test5.gresource with a meson_exe.py custom command.
FAILED: gio/tests/test5.gresource
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --unpickle /home/tdineen/glib-2.64/glib-2.64.2/_build/meson-private/meson_exe_glib-compile-resources_43058d28c31eeb1e2ec6bafbeb5396e7a570b5f2.dat
002e:err:module:import_dll Library iconv.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\libintl-8.dll") not found
002e:err:module:import_dll Library libintl-8.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe") not found
002e:err:module:import_dll Library libpcre-1.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe") not found
002e:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe" failed, status c0000135
[2/328] Generating digit_test_resources.h with a meson_exe.py custom command.
FAILED: gio/tests/digit_test_resources.h
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --unpickle /home/tdineen/glib-2.64/glib-2.64.2/_build/meson-private/meson_exe_glib-compile-resources_32665dc483a9141b75e2f13bf28484032ca64235.dat
0030:err:module:import_dll Library iconv.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\libintl-8.dll") not found
0030:err:module:import_dll Library libintl-8.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe") not found
0030:err:module:import_dll Library libpcre-1.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe") not found
0030:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\home\tdineen\glib-2.64\glib-2.64.2\_build\gio\glib-compile-resources.exe" failed, status c0000135
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[compyx (Bas Wassink)]

I once struggled with this myself, though on Debian. I did a write-up on this: GTK3-cross-build-setup.md.

Perhaps there’s some hints in that document to help you along. You’ll have to change some things to make it work on Fedora I suppose.
I got stuck when trying to cross-compile mesa, so I ended up patching alien and converting Fedora mingw64 RPM’s to .deb’s and installing those.