Building CryptoPP with Mingw on Windows natively

[faltur]

Hi, I would like to suggest the developers to offer support for building CryptoPP on Windows natively using Mingw. It is just a matter of creating a working Makefile.mingw, so that I can call mingw32-make -f Makefile.mingw directly from a Windows's Command Prompt.

The reason is because I'm using an old version of Windows (W7) and I can't use MSYS2 anymore because it gets updated whenever I try to install mingw toolset on it. And when this happens, I'm not able to open MSYS2 console anymore due to incompatibility with Win7. I have been using the old (first) versions of MSYS/Mingw32, but now I had to upgrade the GCC because it wasn't working with Windows API functions from the crypt32.lib.

Since CryptoPP offers support for old version of GCC (3.x), I thought you guys could also give us another alternative to build it under Windows, which could easily solve my issue.

[Coralesoft]

@faltur
you can do this now with
mingw32-make.exe -j10 LDFLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++"

eg.
C:\temp>mingw32-make.exe -j10 LDFLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++"
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -g2 -O3 -pthread -pipe -c cryptlib.cpp
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -g2 -O3 -pthread -pipe -c cpu.cpp
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -g2 -O3 -pthread -pipe -c integer.cpp
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -g2 -O3 -pthread -pipe -c 3way.cpp
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -g2 -O3 -pthread -pipe -c adler32.cpp