cross compiling linux -> windows

[kinke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 at 14:03:01 UTC, Oleg B wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 at 13:08:07 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 at 12:35:16 UTC, Oleg B wrote:
>>> Hello. I'm try to cross build example program and get some 
>>> error.
>>
>> Hi Oleg, MinGW isn't supported anymore, see release notes. 
>> Using the 32-bit MSVC triple `i686-pc-windows-msvc` should 
>> work.
>
> Thanks, it works and now I get .obj output. ldc not support 
> cross linking and I must use external tools for this?

With LDC 1.3, you'll be able to at least generate static libs for 
any target. Linking executables and shared libraries is a 
different beast. If you can't/don't want to use the MS linker, 
you can use LLVM's LLD as cross-linker (works for MSVC targets, 
but can't emit .pdb debuginfos). You'll still need the MS libs 
though (Visual C runtime, WinSDK) and will have to play around 
with command-line options or environment variables to get it to 
work.

If there's more interest wrt. cross-linking to Windows, I can 
integrate that into LDC 1.3 too, I've already prepared for this 
but then put it aside as cross-linking to non-Windows via an 
integrated LLD is non-trivial.