From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-11 08:08:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> From: "Robert R. Beaver" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 08:19:53 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.224.206.67 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1021129737 63.224.206.67 (Sat, 11 May 2002 10:08:57 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 10:08:57 CDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23901 Date: 2002-05-11T08:19:53-07:00 List-Id: David Brown wrote: > Robert Dewar 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.