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Build from Linux to Windows 64 bit Static

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Radhi edited this page Jan 27, 2019 · 4 revisions

There are three steps for building static QML app from Linux to Windows 64-bit :

Build static Qt for Windows using MXE

MXE (M cross environment) is a Makefile that compiles a cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as SDL and Qt.

  1. Download the latest version of MXE and save it to your preferred directory. In this tutorial, I'll save it to /home/radhi/MXE :

    git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git /home/radhi/MXE

  2. From terminal, enter the MXE directory :

    cd /home/radhi/MXE

  3. Inside the MXE directory, build static Qt for Windows 64-bit. It might take a long time, depending on your system :

    make MXE_TARGETS="x86_64-w64-mingw32.static" cc cairo harfbuzz qt5

  4. Now static Qt5 for Windows 64-bit has been installed and ready to use.

Set up new profile

Once static Qt installed, we need to create a new profile for qamel. In this tutorial, we will create a profile named win_64_static by running :

qamel profile setup win_64_static

The command above will ask you to submit the information about your OS, build mode, and path to the static Qt that you've installed before. Once finished, it should look like this :

Thanks for using qamel, QML's binding for Go.

Please specify the target OS for this profile. Possible values are "windows", "linux" and "darwin". 
Keep it empty to use your system OS.

Target OS (default linux) : windows

Please specify the target architecture for this profile. Possible values are "386" and "amd64".
Keep it empty to use your system architecture.

Target arch (default amd64) : amd64

Please specify whether this profile used to build static or shared app.

Use static mode (y/n, default n) : y

Please specify the *full path* to your Qt's tools directory.
This might be different depending on your platform or your target. For example, in Linux with Qt 5.11.1, the tools are located in $HOME/Qt5.11.1/5.11.1/gcc_64/bin/

Qt tools dir : /home/radhi/MXE/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static/qt5/bin/
qmake        : found
moc          : found
rcc          : found

Please specify the *full path* to your compiler.
Keep it empty to use the default compiler on your system.

C compiler (default gcc)   : /home/radhi/MXE/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-gcc
C++ compiler (default g++) : /home/radhi/MXE/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-g++

Since you are targeting Windows, you might want to set icon for your executable file. To do so, please specify the *full path* to windres on your system. It's usually located in the directory where MinGW is installed.

Path to windres : /home/radhi/MXE/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-windres

Generating some code for binding...done
Saving profile win_64_static...done

Setup finished.
Now you can get started on your own QML app.

Build the app

Once static Qt installed and the profile created, the last thing to do is to build our qamel app using the static Qt. To do that, run qamel build using profile that we've created before :

qamel build -p win_64_static
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