Cross OS compilation.

[Frits van Bommel]

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).