MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 19, 2008 15:38 UTC (Wed) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: MinGW and why Linux users should care by cde
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

VC++ (at least the command line interface) will run under Wine, if you want to achieve the same thing using that compiler. You will have the same set up issues with libraries and whatnot.

MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 19, 2008 17:46 UTC (Wed) by jdahlin (subscriber, #14990) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, but the installers of VS/VS express have a long history of not working in wine as the exercise various levels of the window api which is not properly implemented in wine.

MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 19, 2008 18:59 UTC (Wed) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

It really is doable - I have been cross-building Windows stuff on Linux much of this afternoon. I didn't set up the environment myself though - maybe the stuff was unpacked under Windows and just copied over.