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GSmartControl - a hard disk drive health inspection tool
GTK+ for Windows Runtime Environment moved to gtk-win.sourceforge.net
GTK+ Preference Tool moved to gtk-win.sourceforge.net
MinGW cross-compiler

News

2009-01-31
The address of this page has changed
due to Lycos Europe discontinuing their webhosting services. The new address is http://artificialtime.com/ashaduri.

2008-10-05
I just released a new program - GSmartControl. It's a graphical user interface for smartctl (from Smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it. You can get it at http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de.

2008-01-20
Finally moved all the GTK+-related stuff to http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net. From now on, all the GTK+-related updates will happen there. In related news, gtk2-runtime-2.12.15 has been released.

MinGW cross-compiler

This section contains various resources for compiling Windows applications from Linux and building your own cross-compiler.
Just in case you don't know already, MinGW cross-compiler is a modified version of GCC plus some helper programs, which gives developers opportunity to compile Windows binaries (.exe-s) without ever booting to Windows.

Quick Links:
Notes
Documentation
Downloads
Links

Notes:

This site hosts gcc-3.3.1-based version of MinGW cross-compiler.

If you need a different version, I suggest checking out these sites:

http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/
contains a build of the gcc-4.3 cross-compiler.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/CrossToolchain:/mingw/
contains a build of the gcc-3.4 cross-compiler.

Even though these sites contain rpm packages, you can use a tool like alien to convert them to tarballs.
You may still find the cross-configure, cross-make and other scripts from this site helpful when using other cross-compilers.

Documentation:

These documents are written by me using the information from various places in the internet. Accept my apology for broken English, it's not my primary language.

Using MinGW cross-compiler HOWTO (a bit outdated) - Instructions for simple users who don't want to mess with the building of cross-compiler.

Downloads:

Note: Everything is built on Red Hat 9 machine, glibc-2.3.3-20.

mingw-cross-gcc331-031201.ash.i586.tar.bz2 - The mingw cross compiler binaries, based on: gcc-3.3.1-20030804-1, binutils-2.13.90.0.4, mingw-runtime-3.2, w32api-2.4.
mingw-cross-gcc331-docs-031201.ash.i586.tar.bz2 - Man and info pages for gcc and binutils. You don't really need this if you have the native compiler installed, as you can use the the documentation that came with you real GCC and Binutils.
binutils-2.14.90-20030807-1.bin.tar.bz2 - Newer (experimental and problematic) binutils. Download only if you're having problems with the version included in the archive above. Install by simply overwriting files.
cross-scripts.tar.gz - cross-configure, cross-make, etc... - scripts for easy cross-compiling of autoconf'ed Unix software for win32.
gcc-build-scripts.tar.gz - Simple shell scripts for easy building of gcc-3.3-based MinGW under Linux.

Links:

http://www.mingw.org - Home of MinGW, Minimalist GNU for Windows compiler. If you are interested in win32 native version of gcc, visit this site.
http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/ - - Sam Lantinga's (aka Slouken) cross-compiler page (a bit outdated).

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