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[Fairlight]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:25:14AM -0500, Brian K. White may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> Fairlight wrote:
> 
> > Why even use cygwin anymore?  VirtualBox with a -real- distro on it is so
> > much cleaner.  I used cygwin for a while, but it was pretty ugly--and X11
> 
> Compilation environment to produce windows binaries without relying on 
> msvc++express or any commercial compiler. That's not a religious 
> requirement like it sounds, just the most practical goal to try for as 
> long as it's available.
> Are you saying you have a well-working cross-compile environment for a 
> linux host to produce windows binaries? I wouldn't mind switching to 
> building that way.

Negative.  I compile on the linux VM, and execute on the same VM--all of
which is done as a guest OS running on a WinXP host OS.  Any native Windows
binaries I make are perl compiled with PAR, these days.

I've not really found it useful to have Windows binaries without net/GUI
API functionality, which ruled out native gcc for DOS.  I never really
liked cygwin all that much, so I just forewent C-based alternatives until I
got into vbox, and I keep a VM running 24/7.

I guess the "native" part isn't really important to me for my own stuff;
the question is whether the resultant binary can be run on the machine, not
if it can be run under the host OS or guest OS.  For stuff I distribute,
Perl/Tk compiled works great.

To each their own...

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