CROSSREPORT(1)

🦋 CrossReport — the manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie so this is the CrossReport(1) page, aka the girlies' guide to peeking at a Linux binary and figuring out how much ✨drama✨ it's gonna be to cross-compile it for Windows. Let's go. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

CrossReport — the analysis tool that helps you cross-compile stuff to Windows. It's giving "who do I have to fight to make this work on Windows" energy, and honestly? Iconic. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mingw32-crossreport [options] /path/to/linuxbinary

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, CrossReport is your little detective 🕵️‍♀️ — it helps you analyze the APIs a compiled Linux program is using, so you can vibe-check the effort it'd take to cross-compile that program for Windows with the Fedora MinGW cross-compiler. Lowkey genius.

The simplest way to use it? Point it at an existing Linux binary, then read the generated report. That's it. That's the whole thing. 🫶

Now, what it does in more detail (because we love a thorough queen 👑): it looks at the libraries and API calls that the Linux binary is using, and it compares them against the libraries and API calls that are currently supported under the Fedora MinGW cross-compiler. Then it works out what's missing, and it produces a report suggesting how much work needs to be done to port the program. For example: whether whole libraries need to be ported first, and/or how to substitute individual calls to make them work on Windows. ✨

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

say it with me: assuming the excellent vector graphics editor Inkscape (<http://www.inkscape.org/>) is installed, you could do:

mingw32-crossreport /usr/bin/inkscape > inkscape-report.txt
less inkscape-report.txt

ate. that's it. report goes in the file, you read the file. 📄✨

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💀 SHORTCOMINGS 💀

real talk: the report is only a general guide. CrossReport contains a lot of knowledge about common Linux calls and APIs, but it does not know about every possible library. So don't come for it when it misses something, she's doing her best. 🙈

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🍓 DATABASE 🍓

The program relies on a database of MinGW APIs. The default location for this database is /usr/share/crossreport/crossreport.db — or the same file in the current working directory.

⚠️ If the database cannot be found in either location, the program will fail with an error message. No database, no report. periodt.

The database is updated regularly and distributed with CrossReport. To get the best quality report, make sure you are running a recent version of the program. keep her fresh, bestie. 💅

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc. Written by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (yes that's the all-caps bit, it's serious, don't skip it 💀)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — written from the mingw-crossreport-201406 source, dated 2025-07-24, filed under section CROSSREPORT(1). stay slay, go compile something. 💖✨🦋