<p>Is there a manual for cross-compiling a C++ application from Linux to Windows?</p>

<p>Just that. I would like some information (links, reference, examples...) to guide me to do that.</p>

<p>I don't even know if it's possible. </p>

<p>My objective is to compile a program in Linux and get a .exe file that I can run under Windows.</p>

The basics are not too difficult:
```
```
sudo apt-get install mingw32    
cat > main.c <<EOF
int main()
{
  printf("Hello, World!");
}
EOF
i586-mingw32msvc-cc main.c -o hello.exe
```
```
Replace
```
apt-get
```
with
```
yum
```
, or whatever your Linux distro uses. That will generate a
```
hello.exe
```
for Windows.
Once you get your head around that, you could use
autotools
, and set
```
CC=i586-mingw32msvc-cc
```
```
```
CC=i586-mingw32msvc-cc ./configure && make
```
```
Or use
CMake and a toolchain file
to manage the build. More difficult still is adding native cross libraries. Usually they are stored in
```
/usr/cross/i586-mingw32msvc/{include,lib}
```
and you would need to add those paths in separately in the configure step of the build process.