Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>]

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