OpenEuphoria

Re: Cross Platform

• Posted by Jerry Story <story.jerry at g?ail.co?> Oct 17, 2007
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Gary Shingles wrote:
> 
> Hi All, in particular core developers
> 
> Is it feasible, and what would be involved with providing a facility for the
> interpreter to output a bound executable for another platform?
> 
> In particular, I would be interested in building a windows executable on a
> Linux
> platform, using exu to generate a windows .exe
> 
> It strikes me that since bind(u/w) attaches .il code to a back end it
> shouldn't
> matter which backend it actually gets attached to?
> 
> Gary

If you succeed in making a Windows .exe file using GNU/Linux,
you would still need to go to Windows (or use something like wine)
to test the .exe file. So you can't do without Windows (or wine, etc.)
if you want to make something that works on Windows.