• Laurent Dubuisson <skaith_a yahoo.fr> Mar 28 2007
• Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> Mar 28 2007

Laurent Dubuisson <skaith_a yahoo.fr> writes:

Hello,

Does anyone have a solution to :

Build D code on linux;
Compile it in a .exe for windows.

I dont exepect to setup a windows partition only to compile my code
on windows if possible.

Cheers,
Laurent.

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Laurent Dubuisson wrote:
 Does anyone have a solution to :
 
 Build D code on linux;
 Compile it in a .exe for windows.
 
 I dont exepect to setup a windows partition only to compile my code
 on windows if possible.


IIRC it's possible to compile GDC with the mingw sources on Linux. That 
should enable you to cross-compile from Linux to Windows.

Alternatively, you could also try running one of the Windows binary 
distributions (of DMD or GDC) through something like Wine. Assuming your 
Linux box can run x86 code, of course.

Neither of these would require setting up a Windows partition, though 
Wine will IIRC set up a directory tree that looks like the one created 
by Windows.

As a last resort, you could run Windows in a virtual machine 
(VMWare/QEMU/Bochs/VirtualBox/whatever). That would require installing 
Windows, but on a virtual disk instead of a partition (though they may 
also allow raw disks instead of files).