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5### Building 5### Building
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7You need a MinGW compiler and a POSIX environment (so that `make menuconfig` works). I cross compile from Linux. On Fedora or RHEL/CentOS+EPEL installing the mingw32-gcc package will pull in everything needed. 7You need a MinGW compiler and a POSIX environment (so that `make menuconfig` works). I cross-compile on Linux. On Fedora or RHEL/CentOS+EPEL installing mingw32-gcc (32-bit build) or mingw64-gcc (64-bit build) will pull in everything needed.
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9To start, run `make mingw32_defconfig`. You can then customize your build with `make menuconfig`. 9To start, run `make mingw32_defconfig` or `make mingw64_defconfig`. You can then customize your build with `make menuconfig`.
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11In particular you may need to adjust the compiler by going to Busybox Settings -> Build Options -> Cross Compiler Prefix 11In particular you may need to adjust the compiler by going to Busybox Settings -> Build Options -> Cross Compiler Prefix
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19 - Wildcard expansion is disabled by default, though it can be turned on at compile time. This only affects command line arguments to the binary: the BusyBox shell has full support for wildcards. 19 - Wildcard expansion is disabled by default, though it can be turned on at compile time. This only affects command line arguments to the binary: the BusyBox shell has full support for wildcards.
20 - Handling of users, groups and permissions is totally bogus. The system only admits to knowing about the current user and always returns the same hardcoded uid, gid and permission values. 20 - Handling of users, groups and permissions is totally bogus. The system only admits to knowing about the current user and always returns the same hardcoded uid, gid and permission values.
21 - Some crufty old Windows code (Windows XP, cmd.exe) doesn't like forward slashes in environment variables. The -X shell option (which must be the first argument) prevents busybox-w32 from changing backslashes to forward slashes. If Windows programs don't run from the shell it's worth trying it. 21 - Some crufty old Windows code (Windows XP, cmd.exe) doesn't like forward slashes in environment variables. The -X shell option (which must be the first argument) prevents busybox-w32 from changing backslashes to forward slashes. If Windows programs don't run from the shell it's worth trying it.
22 - Currently only 32-bit builds of BusyBox work. If you want to install 32-bit BusyBox in a system directory on a 64-bit version of Windows you should put it in `C:\Windows\SysWOW64`, not `C:\Windows\System32`. On 64-bit systems the latter is for 64-bit binaries. 22 - If you want to install 32-bit BusyBox in a system directory on a 64-bit version of Windows you should put it in `C:\Windows\SysWOW64`, not `C:\Windows\System32` as you might expect. On 64-bit systems the latter is for 64-bit binaries.