[CL] advises that [Xmingwin] is not like many other projects; generating a correctly-installable
version is ''hard'' and rather magical.  [Jean-Claude Wippler], as is usual for him, has taken 
the incredibly generous initiative of making working installable packages publicly available
here 
[http://www.equi4.com/pub/xc/],
including ones for x86 [Linux] and [MacOS X].





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For x86-Linux-to-Windows, [Rolf Ade] favors
the binaries at  
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/mingw-cross.tar.bz2 .
One typically unzips .bz2 with "bunzip2".

This binary image requires GNU libc 2.2.

Add the bin dir of the mingw cross compiler to your PATH. (You could
also use the [mingw32]/bin dir, with links with 'standard' names - gcc,
ar, ranlib etc. - to the real program's in bin, but be careful to not
fool yourself with different 'gcc's in your PATH.)


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While someone once wrote, 
"To set up an Xmingwin cross compiler use the script provided by [Mo
DeJong] (a copy is available at [http://mini.net/sdarchive/xmingwin.sh] (notice the one bogus newline
in the middle of 'BASE_URL=...' which needs to be removed). This
script downloads Xmingwin, builds it and installs under
/usr/local/Xmingwin (you can edit the script and change the PREFIX
variable if you want to install it elsewhere)",
[CL] found that xmingwin.sh unworkable in October 2002.
Here's another such script, which no Tcl-er has yet tried:
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/Scripts/build-mingw-cross.sh