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11-06-2004, 02:36 PM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
Distribution: Ubuntu "Dapper Drake"
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compiling .exe in linux
is it possible to compile windows executables (.exe) in linux? If so, where is a program ?
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11-06-2004, 02:45 PM
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There is an amazing program called WINE
It should run most win32 programs that you may have...
get it at www.winehq.org |
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11-06-2004, 02:52 PM
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yeah, i have that, most compilers don't work well though. Is there a native linux compiler that compiles .exe's ?
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11-06-2004, 02:54 PM
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Um, I don't think so...
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11-06-2004, 03:03 PM
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Files with the extention .exe are executable programs and therefor already compiled.
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11-06-2004, 03:06 PM
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I think he means that he has the Source Code and wants to make an EXE
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11-06-2004, 03:13 PM
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Location: USA
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GCC Just Compiles apps right? Woulden't it be possible to compile source written for windows on linux using GCC and just add the .exe extension?
Just some ideas......
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11-06-2004, 03:20 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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you can't compile software to run on windows.. that's just nonsense.
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11-06-2004, 03:31 PM
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so now i have to reinstall that sucky windows
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11-06-2004, 04:03 PM
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Acid, I hate to diagree with you, but cross-compilers do exist. One of them is MinGW. The following link came up up out of the depths of Google -- it may or may not help the OP:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgc.../msg00069.html |
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11-06-2004, 04:33 PM
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It is possible to cross compile on one platform an executable for another platform.
For instance, with gcc on linux you could compile a program for SPARC SOLARIS.
I am not sure if GCC supports compiling for windows though.
Check out previous posters link to MINGW, it looks promising.
If worst comes to worst and you cannot find a cross compiler for windows on linux, make one yourself. Be unique and make history for the linux platform, by being the first person making a compiler that can compile windows binarys on a linux machine. Just be sure to GPL it and share it with the world! (I say this, because sicne you want a Windows compiler for linux I assume your a c/c++ developer?)
Last edited by jon_k; 11-06-2004 at 04:35 PM.
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11-06-2004, 04:37 PM
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Location: Maryville, Tennessee
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i am a C developer, but I thought u had to program in another lang to compile C.
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11-06-2004, 05:08 PM
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/me never pretends he is actually intelligent or knowledgeable  |
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11-07-2004, 11:58 AM
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Of course you can cross-compile EXEs, I do so all the time. It's really quite trivial though I'd recommend using the WineHQ headers as opposed to the MinGW headers, as they are more complete. You can find RPMs of cross compiler builds around the net if you look.
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