On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:34:44PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. Or if you need a more complete (all things being relative) unix-like environment, you could try Cygwin. > > 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/> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------
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