Cross compile windows programs on linux

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, August 24, 2018 3:28:37 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 08/24/2018 12:30 PM, John Burton wrote:
> > On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 15:26:30 UTC, kinke wrote:
> >> On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:10:40 UTC, John Burton wrote:
> >>> Is in the subject. Are there any cross compilers that will run on a
> >>> linux system but compile D code using Win32 into a windows .exe file,
> >>> preferably 64 bit? I can find hints of cross compilers but not really
> >>> seen anything packaged up?
> >>
> >> See https://forum.dlang.org/post/acjcrfvxloapdlapzygn@forum.dlang.org.
> >
> > Oh thank you.
> > I did a search but somehow missed that
>
> You could probably also just run the windows version of the compiler
> under wine. I think I remember hearing of people doing that.

That will probably work, but actually running the program that you build is
another story. I actually originally developed the Windows-specific portion
of std.datetime using wine, and I ended up with some bugs in my code,
because the way that wine behaved when running it did not actually match
what Windows did like it was supposed to. However, what dmd itself does has
so little to do with the Win32 API that building code using dmd shouldn't be
a problem.

- Jonathan M Davis