OpenEuphoria

Re: Cross Platform

• Posted by Gary Shingles <eu at 531?i.?o.nz> Oct 17, 2007
• 498 views

Jerry Story wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 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.

Hi Jerry

I'm not really thinking about a 'testing' situation, more like a customised
program that is known to compile and work OK, with maybe just a few changes in
pre-defined variables.

Eg, a program on a web site that generates an executable on demand (from a Linux
host :)

Gary