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



Phil Edwards writes:
> 
> 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?

FYI, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-win32/2001/debian-win32-200112/threads.html



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