On Thursday 15 November 2007, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > Simple questions, probably no simple answers : > > Can I compile Audacity for Windows using a Linux tool-chain ?
Yes, that's how I made the Win32 binaries for Kobo Deluxe, DT-42 etc. Some libraries (depending on build tools, mostly) may need some "help" to install in the cross-compiler environment, but widely used cross platform libs (SDL, GTK+ etc) usually cross-compile out of the box and/or come with pre-built packages for cross-compiling. Before considering building a cross compiler of your own (which is not terribly hard these days, but still), check what's available for cross-compiling on your distro! The Linux->Win32 case is a rather popular one, but some distros have cross compiler packages for other target platforms as well. [...] > If I can't compile it directly in Linux can I do it in Wine ? If > so, how ? That should work too, but doesn't seem to make much sense if you're already running the "home" platform of the GNU tools. :-) > And last: > > If I can only do it native Windows, what do I need in the way of > compiler etc. ? Cygwin is probably the easiest way to get started with that, whether you're using Wine or Windows: http://www.cygwin.com/ //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --' _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev