[Dev-C++] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20Compile=20Linux=20Code=20On=20Windows=3F?=

[ChrisM <li...@as...>]

=20"Shane=20Plesner"=20wrote:
=20>
=20>=20=20I=20am=20interested=20in=20learning=20how=20to=20use=20C++=20w=
ith=20linux.=20The=20only=20problem=20is=20that
=20>=20=20I=20am=20not=20ready=20to=20switch=20my=20OS=20from=20Windows=20=
to=20Linux=20quite=20yet.=20Is=20there=20some=20way
=20>=20=20I=20can=20compile=20Linux=20programs=20on=20Windows=3F=20


I=20suggested=20this=20as=20"a=20very=20useful=20feature=20which=20shoul=
d=20be=20easy=20to=20implement"=20a
few=20days=20ago.=20

The=20general=20idea=20is=20that=20you'd=20run=20DevCpp=20on=20Windows=20=
configured=20with=20a=20a=20cross-
compiling=20GCC=20(runs=20on=20Win32,=20outputs=20for=20Linux).=20You=20=
then=20need=20to=20use=20a=20networked
Linux=20box=20or=20virtual=20machine=20(eg.=20VMWare)=20to=20actually=20=
run=20the=20compiled=20application.

That=20leaves=20debugging=20it,=20which=20would=20require=20DevCpp=20to=20=
control=20a=20"remote"
GDB=20running=20on=20the=20Linux=20box/VM.=20That=20doesnt=20appear=20to=
o=20hard=20at=20all,=20as=20GDB=20was=20
designed=20for=20such=20things.

The=20end=20result=20would=20be=20that=20you:

1)=20dont=20need=20a=20full=20port=20of=20DevCpp=20to=20Linux=20(tricky!=
)

2)=20get=20to=20develop=20for=20Linux=20on=20your=20tried=20and=20truste=
d=20Windows=20desktop

3)=20can=20do=20Windows/Linux=20cross=20platform=20development=20in=20th=
e=20same=20IDE=20and=20
=20=20=20environment=20(woo=20hoo=20-=20that=20sounds=20like=20a=20first=
!)

4)=20can=20do=20this=20on=20a=20single=20PC=20if=20you=20want

Now=20that=20MS=20VS.Net=20is=20'open'=20(ahem!)=20I=20guess=20someone=20=
will=20do=20something
similar=20with=20that=20before=20too=20long,=20but=20I'd=20love=20to=20s=
ee=20it=20in=20a=20product=20like
DevCpp=20first.