I have to write a few programs in c++ for my course. My machine is a linux machine, but the computers we use for the course are all windows machines. I usually compile my projects by sending them in, then compiling them using bcc, but it would be much easier if there were a way to compile them in linux, for example, though not essentially, with g++.

Thanks

Have a look at this one
http://www.wxwindows.org/technote/crosscmp.htm
or do some googling :}


Cheers,
Tink

I don't know how to do that from Linux; you can create C++ that is *compilable* (is that a word?) on Windows but not create a windows binary, AKAIK. You'd need to have all the Windows libraries and such installed. (possible with WINE?)

However, you can use Cygwin's version of g++ on Windows to build a Windows binary, and I think there's a "-fno-cygwin" (or something similar) flag which will make it not depend on the cygwin dll. This helps you because your code will probably be easier to port from g++/linux to g++/cygwin than from g++/linux to bcc/windows.

Sure, you can do it with mingw check http://www.mingw.org/index.shtml . But its a little bit hard since you need to try it running wine, and wine has some bugs (Finally you don't know, is it a bug from wine, my app, both).

Hope this help

If the C++ programs in question aren't making use of Windows-specific function calls and libraries, then it should be fairly easy to port them over after you've written them. I've done course work this way - just get them working in Linux using your g++ compiler, then give yourself a couple days after it's done to go use a Windows machine to compile them and work out any new problems. Most command-line C++ programs that do normal I/O (cout, cin, etc.) should be no problem; if you're doing stuff with graphics, MSFC, or anything else that would rely on a Windows library, it'd probably be trickier...

Thanks everyone, I think I'll just stick with going into the lab to compile it