On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:21:24AM -0500, John R . Campbell wrote: > Seriously, though, if we had a WINE-like tool for Windows that > could run Linux Apps on Windows w/o recompilation... now THAT > might be far more interesting since Linux is far less unstable > an API to code for (i.e. no "obfuscation"). If the better way > to distribute S/W means you develop on Linux (which is FAR less > costly than a Windows platform, thinking IDE/Compilers/etc) then > S/W vendors may start to consider Linux to be the primary target > platform to code for... and Windows becomes the step-child.
We do. It's called Cygwin. Between that and the various cross-platform GUI toolkits, you should be able to develop GUI apps for Linux and run them on Windows (although a recompilation would be needed, unliek the WINE case). Hercules for Windows was done just this way: the same source (pretty much) is compiled on both platforms. This isn't quite the same as the WINE case, and the Cygwin developers are remarkably hostile to those who want to only use it to develop applications (they consider it only worthwhile to use the entire Cygwin environment... cmon, guys, if people *wanted* to run Linux, they'd run Linux!), but it does exist.
