Cross compile wget on Linux for Windows

GNU wget does not release binary on Windows, and it is not very straight-forward to compile for Windows, but it works great on Windows. I just compiled wget 1.12 for Windows. Please DOWNLOAD IT HERE

I did this on Debian 5.0, and I have the following mingw package installed (not https supported, shouldn't be hard to add if you want to compile the openssl):

dpkg -l | grep -i mingw

ii  mingw32                   4.2.1.dfsg-1                       Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) compiler

ii  mingw32-binutils          2.18.50-20080109-1                 Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) binutils

ii  mingw32-runtime           3.13-1                             Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) runtime

This is how to compile wget for Windows on a Linux host using the MingW32 for Linux tool chain

1. download the gnu wget source at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

2. tar zxvf wget-1.12.tgz;  cd wget-1.12; 

3. ./configure CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc AR=i586-mingw32msvc-ar RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib --disable-ipv6 --host=mingw32

4. change "src/config.h" to add 

           #define WINDOWS 1

           #define INHIBIT_WRAP 1

   and comment out these two lines:

           //#define HAVE_SYMLINK 1
           //#define HAVE_USLEEP 1
4.1 comment out "src/host.c" line 67
           //extern int h_errno;

5. vi src/Makefile, add "mswindows.o" to the end of the "am_wget_OBJECTS" assignment

6. search for "LIBS =", and append "-l ws2_32 -s"

7. Make

The wget.exe file is located in src/wget.exe

Enjoy!