The following steps assume MSYS2 is already installed and working. To build libdwarf for usage with Windows, I performed the following steps:

  • Open a MSYS2 MINGW64 session

  • Install all required dependencies:

      pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils mingw-w64-x86_64-brotli mingw-w64-x86_64-bzip2 mingw-w64-x86_64-c-ares mingw-w64-x86_64-ca-certificates mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git mingw-w64-x86_64-curl mingw-w64-x86_64-expat mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-ada mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-fortran mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libgfortran mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-objc mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git mingw-w64-x86_64-isl mingw-w64-x86_64-jansson mingw-w64-x86_64-jemalloc mingw-w64-x86_64-jsoncpp mingw-w64-x86_64-libarchive mingw-w64-x86_64-libb2 mingw-w64-x86_64-libffi mingw-w64-x86_64-libgccjit mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv mingw-w64-x86_64-libidn2 mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libpsl mingw-w64-x86_64-libssh2 mingw-w64-x86_64-libsystre mingw-w64-x86_64-libtasn1 mingw-w64-x86_64-libtre-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libunistring mingw-w64-x86_64-libuv mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2 mingw-w64-x86_64-lz4 mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc mingw-w64-x86_64-mpdecimal mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr mingw-w64-x86_64-ncurses mingw-w64-x86_64-nghttp2 mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-p11-kit mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf mingw-w64-x86_64-python mingw-w64-x86_64-readline mingw-w64-x86_64-rhash mingw-w64-x86_64-sqlite3 mingw-w64-x86_64-tcl mingw-w64-x86_64-termcap mingw-w64-x86_64-tk mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git mingw-w64-x86_64-tzdata mingw-w64-x86_64-windows-default-manifest mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git mingw-w64-x86_64-winstorecompat-git mingw-w64-x86_64-xxhash mingw-w64-x86_64-xz mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib mingw-w64-x86_64-zstd mingw-w64-x86_64-libelf

  • Download a libdwarf release, and prepare the build directories

      rm -rf /tmp/build
  mkdir /tmp/build
  cd /tmp
  wget https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code/releases/download/v0.5.0/libdwarf-0.5.0.tar.xz
  tar -xvf libdwarf-0.5.0.tar.xz
  cd  /tmp/build

  • Build

      meson /tmp/libdwarf-0.5.0
  ninja