This is potentially very useful. Especially because it comes "batteries included" by cross compiling some important cross-platform libraries. My experience wi

This is potentially very useful. Especially because it comes "batteries included" by cross compiling some important cross-platform libraries. My experience with C and C++ is that, as great as the differences between Windows and Unix APIs are, the real friction comes from the differences in compilers and toolchains. There is much good to be said about Visual Studio. But if you are interested in cross-platform, it is probably a lot easier to maintain a single Unix-based build system as long as you have an easy way to test the products under Windows.