On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, 21:23 Laszlo Kishalmi, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10/5/23 12:57, Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, 19:51 Laszlo Kishalmi, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Just a question, as the vote has been pulled off. > >> > >> Is it possible to create the binaries cross compile the profiler library > >> on Linux? > >> > > Not sure. No or with difficulty maybe. > > > > What problem would that solve though? Do we expect everyone who builds or > > votes on NetBeans to only do so on Linux with a cross-compiler set up? > > Well back then, I made the windows launchers compiled from the code > using cross compiler. I would not say that is a Linux only option as gnu > c and mingw is available on other platforms as well. However I do not > have other platforms around. > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.0/README.md#building-windows-launchers Yes, sure. The question is whether we make that a requirement for everyone building the source and stop shipping convenience native binaries at all? Personally, I think that opens up more problems than it solves. Best wishes, Neil
