I found a great tool on the web that I wanted to use on my Mac. Unfortunately, the tool was only available for MSWindows. I contact the author and offered to convert the tool from .net to FLTK/C++. For various reasons, he declined. One issue was, that he does not have access to a Mac and could not compile a version for me.
Well, easily fixed, I thought, and offered him to use my build farm. But now he would have to send the source to my build farm, which is obviously an issue for commercial projects. Searching for a solution, I came across this amazing tool: objconv. It takes object files that were compiled by one compiler and transcodes them into object files for another platform/compiler. For example, instead of sending the source code for "myEncription.c" to the build farm, one can build it on the local machine (OS X, Linux, or MSWindows, doesn't matter) and send the binary to the build farm. objconv then takes the object file and converts it into any other object file format where it can be linked into the executable. There are two limitations: the object file should come from C, not c++, and must be 32 bit Intel. Nevertheless, I find this tool absolutely genius. Thanks to Agner Fog for writing this smart piece of code. http://www.agner.org/optimize/?e=0#objconv - Matthias _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
