On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:14:43PM -0600, H. Streit wrote: > Okay, one of our programmers wants to start porting over a unix app he > wrote to *shudder* windows. In order to do this, he's mounted his > home directory to his windows box via samba, now he's trying to copy > over the sourcecode, but he's having that infamous "UNIX-to-DOS text > file format" issue (a.k.a LF vs CRLF). He's trying to write a batch [...] > any suggestions? Other people have the file-format conversion issue covered, so here's an alternate suggestion: why not use MinGW and cross-compile? This is what I do for a program that I wrote which I want to make available to people running MS Windows, and it works wonderfully -- with minimal hassle for me. My program uses the already-cross-platform SDL library as a basis, which isn't necessarily the best thing for all programs -- another suggestion would be to use wxWidgets -- <http://www.wxwidgets.org/>. I even use Wine to run NSIS <http://nsis.sourceforge.net/> to generate a nice, Windows-standard GUI installer -- all from my Makefile on Linux. (You can download my project from <http://www.mattdm.org/icebreaker/>, by the way -- check out the Makefile to see how the cross-compiling works.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
