On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Martin Bähr <mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Excerpts from Chris Angelico's message of 2016-04-25 00:47:10 +0200: >> ISTR the last time I tried to build Pike on Windows was a bit of a >> disaster. Sadly, there is nothing simple about cross-compilation. It'd >> be really awesome if the Windows 10 Linux subsystem makes that easier. > > windows 10 linux subsystem is the equivalent to wine. it runs native linux > binaries (directly from the ubuntu repos) but has no GUI support. > > greetings, martin.
If it'll run a C compiler, that might be enough to build Pike more easily. The current compilation process involves a Windows machine and a Linux machine with shared storage; if the Linux side of it could be the "Linux on Windows" subsystem, that might cover it. Of course, that might also result in a binary that won't run on Windows 8 or earlier. ChrisA
