# Can't cross build glib

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cant-cross-build-glib/20360
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [July 15, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cant-cross-build-glib/20360 "2022-07-15T23:46:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![baronleonardo](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/baronleonardo/32/1455_2.png) [@baronleonardo](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/baronleonardo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cant-cross-build-glib/20360/1 "2022-07-15T23:46:36Z")

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I’m trying to build glib using mingwW64 without success

```nix
let
        pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}).pkgsCross.mingwW64;
in
pkgs.mkShell {
        name = "cross-env";
        nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
                glib
        ];
}

```

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### Author: ![Atemu](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/atemu/32/10383_2.png) [@Atemu](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/Atemu)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cant-cross-build-glib/20360/2 "2022-07-16T11:42:21Z")

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Windows support is still in its infancy and pkgsCross isn’t very well supported either. This is not expected to work.