Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> 
> > "Robert R. Beaver" <beaveroregon@qwest.net> wrote in message
> > news:<3CD54D8C.3020302@qwest.net>...
> 
> >> Yes, I run FreeBSD only. I would like to make my programs work on
> >> both. I do not usualy write for win32.
> >
> > Using a cross-compiler is an inappropriate and complex
> > way of addressing your problem. My advice is to completely
> > forget this approach it makes no sense.
> 
> Why do you think so?  I wouldn't use a cross compiler for Windows-only
> projects, but I can imagine to use one in the context of a
> multiplatform project.  Quite a few of the tools I like do not run at
> all on Windows, or only after careful investigation and/or substantial
> tweaking (decent editors accessible over SSH come to my mind as an
> example).

The Cygwin toolset (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/) goes a long way
towards providing a "unix-like" environment on Windows. It provides
inetd and ssh; you can log into it remotely.

I don't believe there is an Emacs for Windows or Cygwin that uses an X
interface, so running Emacs on a Windows box with the display
elsewhere is not there yet (I bet people are working on it, though :).
But the other direction is possible; I do that all the time. And cvs
is there, to handle sharing the code between systems.

I build non-gui programs that run on Linux, Solaris, and Windows all
the time, and never use a cross-compiler. CVS, ssh, gnu tools, and
Emacs on all boxes, with Windows as the main X-server, works well for
me.

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