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I'm trying to create a *.deb file from debian using cmake with a mingw cross-compiler. CMake's compiler test fails when using dpkg-buildpackage.

Building normally is fine:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr 
 -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON 
 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None 
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc 
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-g++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done

However when I build this using dpkg-buildpackage it fails to configure:

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package foo
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution stretch
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by $USER
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build hw
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --buildsystem=cmake --parallel 
 dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 dh_clean -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 dpkg-source -b hw
dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (native)'
dpkg-source: info: building sim-honeywell-ease-control in sim-honeywell-ease-control_1.0.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building sim-honeywell-ease-control in sim-honeywell-ease-control_1.0.dsc
 debian/rules build
make: 'build' is up to date.
 fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh binary --buildsystem=cmake --parallel 
 dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=cmake -O--parallel
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 6.3.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -- broken
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.7/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:51 (message):
 The C compiler "/etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc" is not able to
 compile a simple test program.

The interesting part of the full log is a failure during linking:

/etc/alternatives/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--whole-archive CMakeFiles/cmTC_fc912.dir/objects.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -o cmTC_fc912.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libcmTC_fc912.dll.a -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0 @CMakeFiles/cmTC_fc912.dir/linklibs.rsp
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ld: unrecognized option '-z'

The mingw linker fails to recognize the -z option. When I diff the CMakeCache.txt, I can see that dpkg-buildpakcage adds some linker flags by default:

< CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=-Wl,-z,relro
---
> CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=

How can I prevent dpkg-buildpackage from doing this?

FYI: my debian/rules file looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
 dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake --parallel 

You need to disable the relro hardening configuration; change your debian/rules to

#!/usr/bin/make -f

export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=-relro

%:
 dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake --parallel

See the dpkg-buildflags manpage for details.

(As an aside, if you’re using compat level 10 or greater, you don’t need --parallel since it’s enabled by default. In many cases you can drop --buildsystem=cmake too since dh will auto-detect it.)