Compiling xpdf (pdfimages) for Windows

…on a FreeBSD system. I recently needed a modified version of it for a good reason. Only tried for its pdfimages. Probably works for other components as well.

  1. Install these packages:
    • mingw32-bin-msvcrt
    • mingw32-binutils
    • mingw32-gcc
  2. Download, extract, go to xpdf source.
  3. ./configure --host=mingw32 --target=i686-mingw32msvc --build=i686-linux
  4. make pdfimages
  5. ???
  6. Profit!

Whoops, almost forgot one last step. Produced binary from steps above will require additional libraries to start. To make it run with just the binary, rerun the last compile command (from output of make) with additional arguments: -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++.

[ Reference for configure script arguments | Reference for static build ]

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