Re: Help with GUB, or manual cross-compile

[Masamichi Hosoda]

>> Following up a conversation on the user list, as this might be a
>> better
>> place to ask... I think we've established that the only way to compile
>> for
>> Windows is to use GUB on Linux to cross-compile for mingw.
> 
> Well I *think* Masamichi Hosoda compiles on Windows - I only say this
> as I had some private email conversations last year about this to
> possibly document this in the Contributor's Guide when I had some
> spare time to try it out for myself (I always like to make sure that I
> can do something before I document it), and that by using the windows
> based GNU Utils (i.e. cygwin) he was able to make and make doc without
> having to use GUB.

Yes, I compile LilyPond on Windows.
But, I use cygwin environment.
So built binary is for cygwin instead of mingw.

If you accept cygwin, you can build LilyPond like Linux way.