OT: how to port c++ to Windoze

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> The thing I forgot to mention: it also uses Bison and Flex.  Do these
> occur in Windoze?

I guess you mean that the build environment use these, not the  
delivered runtimes, right?

You have two options

1. Install the MinGW compiler as a cross compiler on Linux. Then you  
have all your usual tools available. You even use the Linux make. It  
is just the compiler and linker that are different.

2. Install the needed tools on Windows. I believe the MinGW install  
offers options to install bash/make/bison and all the typical tools.

Do you want the Windows users to be able to re-build the app, or to  
use it as a part of their own apps? The MinGW tools will  
make .dll, .lib and .def files for you. That is all that should be  
needed by Windows users who will only link with your apps.

It is perhaps interesting to note that on the openSUSE Build Service,  
you will find all these tools in RPMs to Linux. And, you will also  
find many things like gtk, xml and the like all compiled for Windows.  
They are in RPMs so you install them on Linux, but can package them  
with your apps as well. The beauty of this is that the Windows and  
Linux versions are always the same. No need to compile Windows version  
of the libraries you use on Linux. I have added these repositories to  
my Linux system, and when I get a new Linux version, the Windows  
version also is updated. For those of us who must support multiple  
platforms, it is a real useful thing.

>
> Is there a Windoze version of make that is usable?  This is the least
> of the worries because a complete compile is only 20 commands or so.
> They could be hard-coded for starters.

MinGW includes GNU make. Same syntax.

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