> > 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. Because? The base problem of having to have libs on host is actually worse on e.g. Linux, because of possible mixing of files. > 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. It's exactly the same. Even if Mac were ELF, which it isn't. > 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. It's a problem of the target, not the host. _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
