msys2-cross

This image contains everything you need to create a windows bundles from msys2 packages. It was built to help with Pidgin3 development as most of use tend to use Linux and don't readily have a Windows machine available.

This image uses pacman-static and a bunch of helper files from mingw64-base to make this all work.

Howto

It setups up a new empty root in /windows which can be modified using pacman-cross which just runs pacman --root /windows $@. After installing packages you can extract the files by any means you like from /windows/mingw32 or /windows/mingw64 depending on which packages you installed.

There is also a makepkg-cross that will allow you to build packages. It requires you set the MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX environment variable to the correct value. As far as I know, the only options are mingw-w64-i686 and mingw-w64-x86_64. So a simple invocation like the following from the directory containing your PKGBUILD will spit out a package for you.

MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX=mingw-w64-i686 makepkg-cross

History

This image was built to be run in convey pipelines, but can we used where ever.