Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

["Robert R. Beaver" <beaveroregon@qwest.net>]

David Brown wrote:
> Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>                                                                 I have
>>not ever heard of anyone wanting to do a cross with windows as a target
>>before, so I doubt there is any prior experience here, especially from
>>FreeBSD *to* Win32.
>>
> 
> Although I've never had the privilege/curse of having to develop
> software for Win32, I think that if I ever did, I would seriously
> consider developing on a different platform and targeting Win32.  I find
> Win32 one of the most uncooperative development platforms I have ever
> used.
> 
> Of course, its uncooperativeness also would make it a very difficult
> target to cross compile to.
> 
> This issue may come up at some point, since I may consider porting Adump
> to win32 at some point.  I would probably just compile it natively, and
> use network shares so I can edit on my desktop machine.
> 
> But, much of the world seems to disagree with me.  Oh well.
> 
> David Brown
> 


I my machine has not had windows on it for several years. unfortunatly I 
need to write program for work. (windows) Well, Maybe I should Develope 
on my machine and compile it on the work machine. I just don't want 
windows to crash during a long compile.