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> Don't say "but I code on it". If you're a coder, you're already a specialized use case. Unless you're a microsoft shop that's not necessarily the case. We ha
by Paul_S 11y ago
> Don't say "but I code on it". If you're a coder, you're already a specialized use case.
Unless you're a microsoft shop that's not necessarily the case. We have windows boxes which are only there so we can compile for MS targets. If there was a way to cross-compile we wouldn't need them. As it is we manage to survive in a bubble created by cygwin. I think marketing uses windows boxes though.
- programmernews3 11y agoDebian has Windows cross-compilers. You can even build Windows installers without leaving Linux, using NSIS.
- programmernews3 11y agoDebian has Windows cross-compilers. You can even build Windows installers without leaving Linux, using NSIS. You could even test under Wine, that probably doesn't cut it though.
- coldtea 11y agoThat's crazy talk. Nobody (except some outsider outliers) developers on Debian to deploy on Windows, no matter what experimental, half-working cross-compilters it has...
- programmernews3 11y agoThe mingw cross-compilers have been around for like a decade, are far from experimental and work great. Many open source projects use them to produce executables for Windows users. http://mingw.org/ http://mingw.org/