[ Thanks to Hans
Bezemer for this link. ]
“You’re in for a long wait, because Volker’s tool
compiles a lot of stuff. Almost seventy packages, including a
whopping 58 libraries. On the other hand it doesn’t require any
intervention, so you’re free to do whatever you like – like watch a
movie or go for a night on the town. When it’s done you’ll find
that you’ve installed a very capable Win32 cross compiler onto your
system. Vanilla Debian packages won’t provide you with a cross
compiler environment as rich as this one.“Volker told me that if you only need the most basic tools you
can also use:make gcc
“And add any additional packages you need later on. However,
this has not been documented yet, but it will certainly be included
in the next version. You can also supply a host of packages on the
commandline, e.g.:make gtk lua libidn”