Building Win32 apps on Linux? (To Cygwin users on the list...)

[Toralf Lund]

Brian Dessent wrote:

>Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>I guess I've just bought Red Hat's story on this, i.e. (from
>>http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/):
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>>Yes. But apparently, it's being built on a Linux host...
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>That is one developer's preference.
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The way I understand the comments earlier on this thread, that's a very 
inaccurate description of the situation. We're not talking about (any) 
"one developer", but the developer(s) who built *the official binary 
release*.

>  I don't see how it has anything to
>do with the scope and vision of the project, which does not include
>supporting linux binaries.
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>By this line of reasoning, volunteer-run linux distros like Fedora and
>Debian should ship win32-hosted linux-targeted binaries of gcc, since
>hey, some linux users might have windows systems too. 
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Again, that's not the same thing at all. I was referring to the 
Co-Project Leader (title taken from e-mail signature) of the project. 
Not "some user" or "a developer".

> How do you think
>the fedora packagers would react if you told them they should support
>windows binaries in their distro? 
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That would be a completely different situation. The fedora packagers 
don't build their distro under Windows, do they?

> Do you think they would have any
>desire to do so?  Would their package system even have the machinery to
>support foreign binaries?
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>Brian
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