Qt crosscompilation for Windows in Linux

Taken from http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/qt_software/98131/.

Requirements:

Qt SDK for Linux and Qt SDK for Windows must be installed.
GCC/G++ (usually it comes installed along with a distro).
Compiler i586-mingw32msvc-gcc/i586-mingw32msvc-g++ (can be found in repository for your distro).

In order to make crosscompilation possible one must create new spec for it. To make this task a bit easier it is more convinient to copy an existing one, for example, win32-g++ (here and further $QT_WIN points to Qt SDK for Windows installation path and $QT_LINUX - to Qt SDK for Linux):

$ cd $QT_WIN/qt/mkspecs/
$ cp -R win32-g++/* win32-x-g++/

Next, some changes must be done in win32-x-g++/qmake.conf:

QMAKE_SH = sh
QMAKE_CC = i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
QMAKE_CXX = i586-mingw32msvc-g++
QMAKE_INCDIR_QT = $QT_WIN/qt/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR_QT = $QT_WIN/qt/lib
QMAKE_LINK = i586-mingw32msvc-g++
QMAKE_LINK_C = i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
QMAKE_LFLAGS = -mthreads -Wl,-enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -mwindows
QMAKE_MOC = $QT_LINUX/qt/bin/moc
QMAKE_UIC = $QT_LINUX/qt/bin/uic
QMAKE_IDC = $QT_LINUX/qt/bin/idc
QMAKE_RC = i586-mingw32msvc-windres
QMAKE_STRIP = i586-mingw32msvc-strip

Building project now is easy. All that should be done is setting of QMAKESPEC environment variable. This variable is checked by qmake on the startup. Unsetting it will return Qt spec target to the Linux one (that is, system’s default).

$ export QTDIR=/opt/qtsdk-win/Desktop/Qt/4.7.3/mingw
$ export QMAKESPEC=$QTDIR/mkspecs/win32-x-g++
$ make clean distclean # optional; used for cleaning from previous builds
$ qmake # a linux one; all crosscompilation work is by fact done in spec file
$ make

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Qt crosscompilation for Windows in Linux