compiling MS Windows programs on Linux [was Re: Text files]

[fredex]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:34:44PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:14:43PM -0600, H. Streit wrote:
> > Okay, one of our programmers wants to start porting over a unix app he 
> > wrote to *shudder* windows.  In order to do this, he's mounted his 
> > home directory to his windows box via samba, now he's trying to copy 
> > over the sourcecode, but he's having that infamous "UNIX-to-DOS text 
> > file format" issue (a.k.a LF vs CRLF).  He's trying to write a batch 
> [...]
> > any suggestions?
> 
> Other people have the file-format conversion issue covered, so here's an
> alternate suggestion: why not use MinGW and cross-compile? This is what I do
> for a program that I wrote which I want to make available to people running
> MS Windows, and it works wonderfully -- with minimal hassle for me.

Or if you need a more complete (all things being relative) unix-like
environment, you could try Cygwin.

> 
> My program uses the already-cross-platform SDL library as a basis, which
> isn't necessarily the best thing for all programs -- another suggestion
> would be to use wxWidgets -- <http://www.wxwidgets.org/>.
> 
> I even use Wine to run NSIS <http://nsis.sourceforge.net/> to generate a
> nice, Windows-standard GUI installer -- all from my Makefile on Linux.
> 
> (You can download my project from <http://www.mattdm.org/icebreaker/>, by
> the way -- check out the Makefile to see how the cross-compiling works.)
> 
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