Building for Windows on Linux

wadey · Post by **wadey** » May 21st, 2003, 3:36 pm

I have successfully built MozillaFirebird on my linux box a few times, and now I would like to do the same for my windows box. I don't know if this is possible, but I thought I would ask:

Is there anyway I can build windows binarys of Firebird on my linux box? I have my linux box set to automaticaly build a new nightly each night, and it would be cool if I could build a windows version too. Anyone know if this can be done?

chrookee · Post by **chrookee** » May 21st, 2003, 3:59 pm

wadey wrote:I have successfully built MozillaFirebird on my linux box a few times, and now I would like to do the same for my windows box. I don't know if this is possible, but I thought I would ask:

Is there anyway I can build windows binarys of Firebird on my linux box? I have my linux box set to automaticaly build a new nightly each night, and it would be cool if I could build a windows version too. Anyone know if this can be done?

really doubt if this possible...

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Post by **alanjstr** » May 21st, 2003, 4:17 pm

Windows and Linux do not have binary compatibilty. Maybe you could do some DOS emulation and have a compiler run on that. They made it so that you can compile Mozilla with Cygwin/GCC/MingW, so that will eventually happen for Firebird, I think.

anand · Post by **anand** » May 23rd, 2003, 2:18 pm

I did a quick Google search and found some pages that explain how to compile Windows applications on Linux.

Search for "windows linux cross compiler" and see if any of the results help you.

aebrahim · Post by **aebrahim** » May 23rd, 2003, 3:36 pm

Take a look at this:

http://mozilla.org/build/cross-compiling.html

It describes I think how to do what you want to do. YMMV.

wadey · Post by **wadey** » May 23rd, 2003, 11:16 pm

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

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