I have made a game for Linux and want to release it soon (on linux & windows). Since its SDL/OpenGL and I dont do any special things it shouldn't be much porting to windows.

Problem: Maintaining
I have the game in code::blocks SDL project on Linux. So I got wine and installed wined Code::Blocks with MingW so I can cross compile on Linux.

For another game I made, I used a Makefile which has "if" statements to set up compile variables. And everything else is totally identical to windows & linux (code, source files and etc...)

With codeblocks I got used to not having to worry about makefiles and it did well and I better focused on making the game rather than everytime a new file is added editing the makefile and etc...

Is there some nice ways to have a cross platform environment to make it easy to make games for Linux and windows.

I'm thinking of making my own system of auto-generating a makefile (essentially upgrading the setup I have for my previous game to auto add entry's to the makefile & some other stuff). I'm hoping something out there exists already thats simple.

Thank you.

For a SDL/OpenGL game I did last year I used CMake to deal with platform build quirks. CMake generates Visual Studio solutions, which was awesome for the team members on Windows and a lot more natural to deal with than MinGW.

I heard of cmake but didn't exactly know what it was. I already made a build script to do things for windows. Next time I'm going to try cmake.