compiling gtk3 app for windows in linux using mingw64 - c

I need to compile a simple gtk application for windows using Linux. Here is an example from this link. The compilation via gcc $(pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0) -o example-1 example-1.c $(pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0) works as expected. I installed mingw64 packages for Linux in order to compile for windows.
When I run x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc $(pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0) -o example-1.exe example-1.c $(pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0) command, I will get this error:
amb#localhost test]$ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc $(pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0) -o example-1.exe example-1.c $(pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0)
In file included from /usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h:9,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:32,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,
from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkconfig.h:13,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdk.h:30,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/gtk.h:30,
from example-1.c:1:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h: In function '_GLIB_CHECKED_ADD_U64':
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:277:53: error: size of array '_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_0' is negative
#define G_STATIC_ASSERT(expr) typedef char G_PASTE (_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_, __COUNTER__)[(expr) ? 1 : -1] G_GNUC_UNUSED
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:274:47: note: in definition of macro 'G_PASTE_ARGS'
#define G_PASTE_ARGS(identifier1,identifier2) identifier1 ## identifier2
^~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:277:44: note: in expansion of macro 'G_PASTE'
#define G_STATIC_ASSERT(expr) typedef char G_PASTE (_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_, __COUNTER__)[(expr) ? 1 : -1] G_GNUC_UNUSED
^~~~~~~
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:423:3: note: in expansion of macro 'G_STATIC_ASSERT'
G_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof (unsigned long long) == sizeof (guint64));
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:46,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:28,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/gtk.h:30,
from example-1.c:1:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gcredentials.h: At top level:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gcredentials.h:75:1: error: unknown type name 'uid_t'
uid_t g_credentials_get_unix_user (GCredentials *credentials,
^~~~~
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gcredentials.h:79:52: error: unknown type name 'uid_t'; did you mean 'pid_t'?
uid_t uid,
^~~~~
pid_t
I'm new to programming with C and cross compilation. Please explain this problem and provide a solution for me. thx
this is the code (example-1.c):
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
static void
print_hello (GtkWidget *widget,
gpointer data)
{
g_print ("Hello World\n");
}
static void
activate (GtkApplication *app,
gpointer user_data)
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *button;
GtkWidget *button_box;
window = gtk_application_window_new (app);
gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Window");
gtk_window_set_default_size (GTK_WINDOW (window), 200, 200);
button_box = gtk_button_box_new (GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL);
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button_box);
button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");
g_signal_connect (button, "clicked", G_CALLBACK (print_hello), NULL);
g_signal_connect_swapped (button, "clicked", G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy), window);
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button_box), button);
gtk_widget_show_all (window);
}
int
main (int argc,
char **argv)
{
GtkApplication *app;
int status;
app = gtk_application_new ("org.gtk.example", G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE);
g_signal_connect (app, "activate", G_CALLBACK (activate), NULL);
status = g_application_run (G_APPLICATION (app), argc, argv);
g_object_unref (app);
return status;
}

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/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0: referência não definida para "ffi_call#LIBFFI_BASE_7.0"
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