On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Martin Bähr mbaehr@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Excerpts from Chris Angelico's message of 2016-04-25 00:47:10 +0200:
ISTR the last time I tried to build Pike on Windows was a bit of a disaster. Sadly, there is nothing simple about cross-compilation. It'd be really awesome if the Windows 10 Linux subsystem makes that easier.
windows 10 linux subsystem is the equivalent to wine. it runs native linux binaries (directly from the ubuntu repos) but has no GUI support.
greetings, martin.
If it'll run a C compiler, that might be enough to build Pike more easily. The current compilation process involves a Windows machine and a Linux machine with shared storage; if the Linux side of it could be the "Linux on Windows" subsystem, that might cover it.
Of course, that might also result in a binary that won't run on Windows 8 or earlier.
ChrisA