MinGW cross-compilation: Runs!

> Hi all,
>
> Based on Tor's, Fridrich's, and others great work, I was able to get the
> MinGW cross-compilation to state that it not only builds, but even
> runs! :-)  The good thing about all this is that with this, you do not
> need a Windows machine at all to be able to produce LibreOffice Windows
> executable.  Even debugging can be done on Linux, using wine.
>
> The full description is here:
>
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/README.cross#n63
>
> Few highlights:
>
> - use the pre-build MinGW packages from OBS
>    [http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service], it will save you lots
>    of pain
> - don't expect a nice installer, the result of build is just a tarball
>    containing the executable and libraries
> - the resulting build works under wine
> - you can use winedbg to debug that
>
> You might have noticed that there is a tinderbox that builds the MinGW
> builds regularly, and I am fixing the breakages when they are not fixed
> by the committer for a long time ;-), so the code should not bitrot that
> easily.  I have also enabled uploading of the build results to
> http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org , the first ones should appear there
> shortly.  Most probably they won't run out of the box, because they will
> be missing the .dlls that come from the OBS MinGW project - but I'll
> adapt scp2 to include them.
>
> All in all - enjoy! :-)  Would be great to see more people hacking on
> this; it is an exciting new world, and lots of things can (and should)
> be improved - see the TODO in the README.cross.
>
> Regards,
> Kendy
>
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