MXE (M Cross environment) is a platform that cross-compiles various tools for Windows from Unix systems.
MXE (M cross environment) is a Makefile that compiles a cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as SDL and Qt. Thus, it provides a nice cross compiling environment for various target platforms, which
- is designed to run on any Unix system
- is easy to adapt and to extend
- builds many free libraries in addition to the cross compiler
- can also build just a subset of the packages, and automatically builds their dependencies
- downloads all needed packages and verifies them by their checksums
- is able to update the version numbers of all packages automatically
- directly uses source packages, thus ensuring the whole build mechanism is transparent
- allows inter-package and intra-package parallel builds whenever possible
