[Bug 775777] New: Switch to mingw-build toolchains / Linux distro packages for Windows toolchains

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775777

            Bug ID: 775777
           Summary: Switch to mingw-build toolchains / Linux distro
                    packages for Windows toolchains
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: Normal
         Component: cerbero
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: slomo at coaxion.net
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

https://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit recommends these here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.8.1/64-bit/threads-posix/seh/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.8.1/32-bit/threads-posix/

We should switch to those instead of relying on our very old toolchains that
nobody maintains. Or alternatively to these
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Multilib%20Toolchains%28Targetting%20Win32%20and%20Win64%29/ray_linn/gcc-6.X-with-ada/
which are also linked from the Qt wiki.

For Linux cross compilation, we should just rely on the distro packages. Both
Fedora and Debian have recent packages.


All this just needs some changes all over the place for setting up things
correctly inside cerbero. And then we still need msys (or something similar,
msys2?) to get wget, flex and bison and to actually get a working shell with
all the tools.

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