How to cross-compile with foreign OS dependencies?

<p>I&#39;m trying to cross compile an application using <a href="https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk">go-gtk</a> for windows on linux, using mingw.</p> <p>My environment is debian linux, and I have installed the gcc-multilib, mingw32, and mingw-w64 packages via aptitude.</p> <p>When I attempt the cross compile, I can specify &#39;i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-win32&#39; as the compiler, but it fails, b/c pango and glib for windows are not installed.</p> <p>If I look inside /usr/i686-w64-mingw32 there are windows-based libraries there, but not pango nor glib.</p> <p>So how can load or install those, so that the compilation succeeds?</p> <p>Looking at <a href="https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk/issues/255">a similar issue in go-gtk</a>, it seems that there&#39;s a dearth of knowledge on how to do this exactly, and not even go-gtk&#39;s author knows.</p> <p>Has anyone here done this successfully?</p> <hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>lapingvino: <pre><p>I think you should be able to get the source code of those dependencies and cross compile them first, if even necessary to precompile them. The source code for different platforms is usually exactly the same :).</p></pre>dpapathanasiou: <pre><p>I&#39;m not sure I understand: the <a href="http://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php" rel="nofollow">gtk windows page</a> references either binary installers or MS Visual Studio, neither of which I have.</p> <p>How could I compile the windows version under debian, and make it available to the go cross-compiler?</p></pre>