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 Ubuntu or Debian using Mingw-w64. It will take less time and is more simple than Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows.

OS version

Any recent Linux should do the trick. For the sake of simplicity, this guide focuses on Debian(-based) distributions.

Known-good Debian(-based) distributions:

Setting up the build environment

As root, execute: 

apt-get install bzip2 mingw-w64 unzip

GMP

TODO

NETTLE

TODO

GNUTLS

TODO

sqlite

TODO

Compiling wxWidgets

cd ~/src
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.1/wxWidgets-3.0.1.zip
unzip wxWidgets-3.0.1.zip -d wxWidgets-3.0.1
cd wxWidgets-3.0.1
./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix-win32" --disable-shared
make
make install

Compile FileZilla

cd ~/src
wget http://download.filezilla-project.org/client/FileZilla_3.9.0.5_src.tar.bz2
tar xvjf FileZilla_3.9.0.5_src.tar.bz2
cd FileZilla_3.9.0.5_src.tar.bz2
./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make
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