Compiling a Win32 Binary on Linux

Ok here's a rather quick and dirty tutorial on how to do this..
I found the scripts that I originally used to set up my environment, so I'm sharing that all with you here :)
They were a bugger for me to find, so hopefully this'll help a few people here... anyway let's start...

DISCLAIMER

This is not the be-all and end-all of how to do this.. there's probably a hellova lot of methods of doing this, this is just the way I did it. This may or may not work, I am using Gentoo Linux and I have my system set up EXACTLY how I like so what follows may not be what you have... with that out the way, let's begin ;)

STEP ONE

Firstly you'll need this thing: XBuild.sh it's a script that will build the entire toolchain needed.. it's using i586-mingw32. This was found after trawling the net for help to set this up myself, and since it wasn't exactly easy to find, here it is for everyone else who was in the same pickle I was.
Save that file in a temp folder (/tmp will do :) ) and become root. Run the script ( sh ./xbuild.sh ) then go have something to eat cause it will take a while. Once it's done, you've a basic setup to create C/C++ programs for Windows!
Don't believe me? do a simple hello world program then make a script with this mess in it:

#!/bin/sh

PREFIX=/opt/Code/win32tools
TARGET=i586-mingw32msvc
PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PREFIX/$TARGET/bin:$PATH"
export PATH
gcc -o helloworld.exe helloworld.c

Run the script and you'll get helloworld.exe spat out, and running that in WINE will show you that it is indeed working. If not, then something may have gone wonky, so post any and all error messages if you didn't get this far.

STEP TWO -- optional really

Surprisingly, that's all you actually need.. the build script above has included all the D3D and GL stuff you should require.. however, what if you want to add other libraries? For example, SDL? Well that's reasonably straight forward, just remember that you're basically using MinGW32 now.. so if any library has an option for that.. you download that package, if it doesn't, it usually has options to be run through MinGW32 so make sure you check them first before compiling.. always read the INSTALL files if available and have a quick nosey at the MAKEFILEs to see if there's any options you can change... as you don't want to end up creating Linux/Windows hybrid nonsense that won't work on either O/S (as I've erm.. done before *cough* hehe).
Here's a default make script that you may want to use.. basically after you've sorted your MAKEFILEs and made sure whatever libs you're installing are gonna behave themselves and use any MinGW32 specific options/code it may have, just run this and you're done. XMake.sh - which is mostly the same as the script above for the hello world program, but ends with exec make $* so it parses the MAKEFILE.

Continued below... hehe