Re: Bug#126125: gcc: Hardly any cross-compilers available

[Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>]

Something that just came up last week:  it might be nice to have a toolchain
targeting the win32 platform.  The few times I've needed to build a .exe
from a linux box were memorable experiences due to the hoop-jumping required.
(I suspect it's much easier now.)

Users wondering "how well would such-and-such a program do under
Windows?" would then be able to simply apt-get some packages and find out.
While providing many generic cross-compilers is almost certainly infeasible,
maybe Debian could adopt some of the Cygwin tools?


Phil

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