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== Introduction ==
Abiword for Windows can be built on a Linux computer using cross-building. Cross-building has been tested using Ubuntu 8.04/9.04 and [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine]. Provided that you have Wine installed on Ubuntu, you can follow these steps to build Abiword for your Windows.


== Getting the source tree ==
Checkout the source tree from the trunk.
   svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk/ 

== Cross Building ==

=== Install mingw ===
'''On Ubuntu''' you need the packages mingw32, mingw32-binutils and mingw32-runtime
   sudo apt-get install mingw32
This will install mingw32 with the other two (mingw32-binutils and mingw32-runtime) dependencies.

'''On Fedora,''' install mingw32-glib2, mingw32-boost, mingw32-libjpeg, mingw32-libpng, mingw32-libxslt, mingw32-libgsf. Read the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Tips tips from Fedora]

=== Get all the dependencies===

'''On Ubuntu:''' unpack all the dependencies to the folder /opt/win32. Here the win32 folder will finally have the sub folders bin, include, lib, and share. Now you will have /opt/win32 as base directory for the win32 stuff.

'''On Fedora:''' you need to compile fribidi and wv.

=== Build ===


'''On Ubuntu'''

Now use the commands:
   source /opt/win32/bin/mingw-env.sh

Go to to source tree and run
   CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/win32/include" ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/abiword --host=i686-pc-linux-gnuaout --target=i586-mingw32msvc

'''On Fedora'''

   mingw32-configure --prefix=/opt/abiword

Then

   make
   make install

== Running ==
abiword.exe will end up in src/. You need to copy it to /opt/abiword/bin to run it on your Linux operating system using wine. Alternatively you may also copy all the required DLLs to src/. Now you can take the abiword.exe along with all the required DLL to a folder in your windows machine to run abiword.exe on Windows.