> No. The trouble of crosscompiling to *nix doesn't lie in ELF, but in the way > of shared linking that requires (in the current form) libraries on the host. >
Yes, but the bottom line is: -it is easier to create an ELF on a unix like system. Creating the elf includes linking the elf. So essentially that was a technical nitpick. I'm more interested in the bottom line of whether it is easier to build web programs on a Mac for typical linux and bsd web servers than it is on a Windows PC. For example I'd like to write this on a Powtils website: 1. install Apache on your mac 2. build a web program 3. compile with FPC using option XXXX to target i386 4. upload it to a typical linux hosting account. I've done cross compiling many times and it is a pain in the butt to create the Elf on windows. I gave up and use CoLinux which is slow but much easier than the painful process of cross compiling and running around searching for all linux .SO and other files. _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
