Phil Edwards writes: > > Something that just came up last week: it might be nice to have a toolchain > targeting the win32 platform. The few times I've needed to build a .exe > from a linux box were memorable experiences due to the hoop-jumping required. > (I suspect it's much easier now.) > > Users wondering "how well would such-and-such a program do under > Windows?" would then be able to simply apt-get some packages and find out. > While providing many generic cross-compilers is almost certainly infeasible, > maybe Debian could adopt some of the Cygwin tools?
FYI, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-win32/2001/debian-win32-200112/threads.html