Mingw32 not recognizing wx-widgets - c++

Question

I'm trying to use mingw32 to compile an application for windows32. It has a makefile, and when I normally use ./configure, it works fine.
However, when I set the host as --host=i686-w64-mingw32, this happens:
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-w64-mingw32
checking target system type... i686-w64-mingw32
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for i686-w64-mingw32-strip... i686-w64-mingw32-strip
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking building for Win32... yes
checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc... i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether i686-w64-mingw32-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of i686-w64-mingw32-gcc... gcc3
checking for i686-w64-mingw32-g++... i686-w64-mingw32-g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether i686-w64-mingw32-g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of i686-w64-mingw32-g++... gcc3
checking for i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib... i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib
checking for sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.8... cross compiling; assumed OK...
yes
checking for wx-config... /usr/bin/wx-config
checking for wxWidgets version >= 2.8.9... no
configure: error:
wxWidgets does not seem to be installed on your system.
If you think wxWidgets >= 2.8.9 is installed,
please check that wx-config is in path, the directory
where wxWidgets libraries are installed (returned by
'wx-config --libs' command) is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
equivalent variable.
What's causing this? As you can see from the successful ./configure, I have wxWidgets 3.0.2 installed. MinGW version 4.0.4-2 is installed. Do these versions work with each other? Obviously wxWidgets is configured and everything because it normally works. I can't figure out why it suddenly can't find wxwidgets just because the host is different.
Config.log file:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by sound-of-sorting configure 0.6.5, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-wx-prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32
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/bin/uname -X = unknown
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/bin/machine = unknown
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PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/games
PATH: /usr/local/games
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PATH: /mnt/c/Windows/System32/wbem
PATH: /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
PATH: /mnt/c/Windows/System32
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PATH: /mnt/c/Windows/System32/wbem
PATH: /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
PATH: /mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft DNX/Dnvm
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PATH: /mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Windows Performance Toolkit
PATH: /mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common
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PATH: /snap/bin
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:2067: checking build system type
configure:2081: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2101: checking host system type
configure:2114: result: i686-w64-mingw32
configure:2134: checking target system type
configure:2147: result: i686-w64-mingw32
configure:2190: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2258: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2269: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2324: result: yes
configure:2383: checking for i686-w64-mingw32-strip
configure:2399: found /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-strip
configure:2410: result: i686-w64-mingw32-strip
configure:2475: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2514: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2521: checking for gawk
configure:2537: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:2548: result: gawk
configure:2559: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2581: result: yes
configure:2671: checking building for Win32
configure:2676: result: yes
configure:2730: checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
configure:2746: found /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
configure:2757: result: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
configure:3026: checking for C compiler version
configure:3035: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc --version >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160211
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
configure:3046: $? = 0
configure:3035: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/5.3-win32/lto-wrapper
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../src/configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir='/usr/include' --mandir='/usr/share/man' --infodir='/usr/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libexecdir='/usr/lib/gcc-mingw-w64' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-multilib --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-tune=generic --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-libgomp --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-lto --with-plugin-ld --enable-threads=win32 --program-suffix=-win32 --program-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-as=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-as --with-ld=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld --disable-libatomic
Thread model: win32
gcc version 5.3.1 20160211 (GCC)
configure:3046: $? = 0
configure:3035: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -V >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3046: $? = 1
configure:3035: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -qversion >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3046: $? = 1
configure:3066: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3088: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3092: $? = 0
configure:3140: result: yes
configure:3143: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3145: result: a.exe
configure:3151: checking for suffix of executables
configure:3158: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o conftest.exe -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3162: $? = 0
configure:3184: result: .exe
configure:3206: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3214: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o conftest.exe -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3218: $? = 0
configure:3225: ./conftest.exe
./conftest.exe: Invalid argument
configure:3229: $? = 1
configure:3244: result: yes
configure:3249: checking for suffix of object files
configure:3271: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3275: $? = 0
configure:3296: result: o
configure:3300: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:3319: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3319: $? = 0
configure:3328: result: yes
configure:3337: checking whether i686-w64-mingw32-gcc accepts -g
configure:3357: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -g conftest.c >&5
configure:3357: $? = 0
configure:3398: result: yes
configure:3415: checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:3478: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.c >&5
configure:3478: $? = 0
configure:3491: result: none needed
configure:3522: checking for style of include used by make
configure:3550: result: GNU
configure:3576: checking dependency style of i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
configure:3687: result: gcc3
configure:3716: checking for i686-w64-mingw32-g++
configure:3732: found /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++
configure:3743: result: i686-w64-mingw32-g++
configure:3814: checking for C++ compiler version
configure:3823: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ --version >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-g++ (GCC) 5.3.1 20160211
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
configure:3834: $? = 0
configure:3823: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=i686-w64-mingw32-g++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/5.3-win32/lto-wrapper
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Thread model: win32
gcc version 5.3.1 20160211 (GCC)
configure:3834: $? = 0
configure:3823: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -V >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
i686-w64-mingw32-g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3834: $? = 1
configure:3823: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -qversion >&5
i686-w64-mingw32-g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
i686-w64-mingw32-g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3834: $? = 1
configure:3838: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler
configure:3857: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -c -g -Wno-unused-local-typedefs conftest.cpp >&5
configure:3857: $? = 0
configure:3866: result: yes
configure:3875: checking whether i686-w64-mingw32-g++ accepts -g
configure:3895: i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -c -g conftest.cpp >&5
configure:3895: $? = 0
configure:3936: result: yes
configure:3961: checking dependency style of i686-w64-mingw32-g++
configure:4072: result: gcc3
configure:4090: checking for i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib
configure:4106: found /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib
configure:4117: result: i686-w64-mingw32-ranlib
configure:4234: checking for sdl-config
configure:4252: found /usr/bin/sdl-config
configure:4265: result: /usr/bin/sdl-config
configure:4275: checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.8
configure:4377: result: yes
configure:4513: checking for wx-config
configure:4532: found /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/wx-config
configure:4545: result: /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/wx-config
configure:4560: checking for wxWidgets version >= 2.8.9
configure:4675: result: no
configure:4749: error:
wxWidgets does not seem to be installed on your system.
If you think wxWidgets >= 2.8.9 is installed,
please check that wx-config is in path, the directory
where wxWidgets libraries are installed (returned by
'wx-config --libs' command) is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
equivalent variable.
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configure: exit 1

Answer 1

You're trying to cross-compile from Linux to Windows. For this to work, you need a Windows version of wxWidgets and not the native Linux one which is found in your first example.
Do you actually want to cross-compile? Your phrase about "just because the host is different" leaves a doubt about whether you actually do it intentionally.