Cross Compiling FileZilla 3 for Windows under Ubuntu or Debian GNU/Linux
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This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for FileZilla 3 for Windows and how to compile it under Debian using Mingw-w64. It will take less time and is more simple than Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows.
OS version[edit]
Any recent Linux should do the trick. For the sake of simplicity, this guide focuses on Debian(-based) distributions.
We strongly recommend to use Debian 12 (Bookworkm) or later (recommended)
Setting up the build environment[edit]
As root, execute:
dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt update apt install automake autoconf libtool make gettext lzip xz-utils apt install mingw-w64 pkg-config wx-common wine wine64 wine32 wine-binfmt subversion git
Back as normal user, execute:
mkdir ~/prefix mkdir ~/src export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$PATH" export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/prefix/lib" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/prefix/include" export TARGET_HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
wine reg add HKCU\\Environment /f /v PATH /d "`x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -print-search-dirs | grep ^libraries | sed 's/^libraries: =//' | sed 's/:/;z:/g' | sed 's/^\\//z:\\\\\\\\/' | sed 's/\\//\\\\/g'`"
GMP[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.3.0.tar.lz tar xf gmp-6.3.0.tar.lz cd gmp-6.3.0 CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-fat make make install
Nettle[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz tar xf nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz cd nettle-3.9.1 ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat make make install
GnuTLS[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.8/gnutls-3.8.1.tar.xz tar xvf gnutls-3.8.1.tar.xz cd gnutls-3.8.1 ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --without-p11-kit --with-included-libtasn1 --with-included-unistring --disable-srp-authentication --disable-dtls-srtp-support --disable-heartbeat-support --disable-psk-authentication --disable-anon-authentication --disable-openssl-compatibility --without-tpm --without-brotli --disable-cxx --disable-doc --enable-threads=windows --disable-tools make make install
Compile SQLite[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-32600-00.tar.gz tar xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3260000.tar.gz cd sqlite-autoconf-3260000 ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-dynamic-extensions make make install
NSIS[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis-3.09-setup.exe wine nsis-3.09-setup.exe /S
The above may print a lot of errors and warnings. Ignore them, check for success this way:
[ -f "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/NSIS/makensis.exe" ] && echo "Success!"
Compile wxWidgets[edit]
cd ~/src git clone --recurse-submodules --branch 3.2 --single-branch https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git wx3 cd wx3 ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" -enable-shared --enable-unicode make make install cp $HOME/prefix/lib/wx*.dll $HOME/prefix/bin
Compile libfilezilla[edit]
cd ~/src svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/trunk lfz cd lfz autoreconf -i ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static make make install
Compile Boost Regex[edit]
cd ~/src wget https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2 tar xf boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2 cd boost_1_85_0 echo "using gcc : : x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ ;" > user-config.jam ./bootstrap.sh ./b2 --user-config=./user-config.jam --build-type=minimal --with-regex --prefix=$HOME/prefix install
Compile FileZilla[edit]
cd ~/src svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/FileZilla3/tags/3.56.0/ fz cd fz autoreconf -i ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-pugixml=builtin make # strip debug symbols $TARGET_HOST-strip src/interface/.libs/filezilla.exe $TARGET_HOST-strip src/putty/.libs/fzsftp.exe $TARGET_HOST-strip src/putty/.libs/fzputtygen.exe $TARGET_HOST-strip src/fzshellext/64/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll $TARGET_HOST-strip src/fzshellext/32/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll $TARGET_HOST-strip data/dlls_gui/*.dll cd data wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/NSIS/makensis.exe" install.nsi
Voila, there's now FileZilla_3_setup.exe in the current directory.