[syslinux] Compile syslinux64.exe on ubuntu

[Tomas M]

As you can see I'm not good in generating official (read: usable)
patches, I can see it is not possible to directly apply the patch.
Anyway, I hope you got the point! :)

Thank you

Tomas M


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tomas M <tomas at slax.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I wanted to recompile syslinux64.exe (windows 64bit binary) on ubuntu.
> The default ./find-mingw64.sh script failed to locate mingw64 on
> ubuntu, even after
>
>    root at htpc:~# apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64
>
> So I had to patch the script to let it find mingw64 on ubuntu as well.
> Patch is below, please apply to syslinux sources:
>
>
> --- syslinux-4.05/win64/find-mingw64.sh.orig 2012-08-28 12:49:17.023627307 +0200
> +++ syslinux-4.05/win64/find-mingw64.sh 2012-08-28 12:49:04.167627212 +0200
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>      amd64-mingw64msvc- \
>      amd64-mingw32- \
>      amd64-mingw32msvc- \
> +    x86_64-w64-mingw32- \
>      ; do
>      if "${prefix}${cc}" -v > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>      echo "$prefix"
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tomas M
> slax.org