[Mingw-users] dev strategy question/poll/survey

[Thomas S. <th...@ws...>]

For me (like many, if not most people on this list I would guess) 
windows is more of a second tier target platform. Over the years I have 
experimented/used/tried many different approaches to the whole issue of 
"dealing with windows". After a string a good successes, I'm about to 
wholesale jump on the boat that says, "do as much windows development 
work as possible on *nix via mingw cross compilers etc". After 
reluctantly finding my way to this school of thought, I'm starting to 
suspect that it is not only a very popular strategy, but perhapses the 
most common. I'm mean both mingw and mingw-64w work just plain awesome 
as cross compilers. NSIS works natively on linux, and Inno Setup runs 
correctly under wine. You can even run many automated tests with wine 
also. A full blown windows targeted *nix continuous integration 
environment is easy to imagine.

So my question is, how many people are doing things this way? ...and as 
a related follow up question (not just for the cross environment) do 
mingw users make windows installers? If so with what tools?

There was also post recently about remote gdb debugging of a linux 
program, anyone doing the reverse?