On 9 March 2015 at 08:44, ketmar via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:12:47 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 3/8/2015 8:43 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: >>> "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:mdj3l3$1hup$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>>> Never needed to build a cross compiler. >>> >>> You did when adding 64-bit targets. ie dmd is a 32->64 and 64->32 >>> cross compiler. >> >> Not really. I never had to compile one one machine and copy the result >> onto another. > > so do you mean that if i need to compile under GNU/Linux, but have > compiler to produce windows PE, that means that i'm not doing cross- > compile? no, i will not copy the resulting PE anywhere, i'll test it > right on the same box. > > a very interesting definition of cross-compilation and cross-compilers...
There's a difference between cross-compiling for a wholly different platform/architecture vs. compiling on a multiarch-aware platform/cpu (such as 64->32).
