Mangal Pandey kirjoitti:
Thanks all. I can see the first approach looks easier. Just to reconfirm that I can compile my application on RHEL AS4 to generate objects for windows?
This Linux distro maybe doesn't have any prebuilt RPMS for this purpose but the Debian has... And in the area of binutils and GCC the binary compatability isn't that bad between distros, so installing (by unpacking) the Debian '.deb' packages into the RedHats should give fully working tools. Just as installing a generic Mozilla application for Linux... I tried some Debian-made Linux-X-MinGW toolchain some months ago and the only problem was that the toolchain wasn't relocatable, some bug in the new GCC (3.4.x or 4.0.x) forcing to use the original '--prefix=/usr' setting in the set for the installation. The host here was SuSE 9.2... But building the crosstoolchain oneself is of course the assumption. While learning to do that the pre-made toolchain can serve as a good/bad example (the Debian one as "bad" when using the base system's '/usr' for its installation - using '/opt/gcc' or something 'local' would be suggested. But opinions about this may differ).
Now for the second approach what you have suggested do i need to use any Application development environment on windows to invoke GCC there.
Not, but if you want a Unix-like development platform on Windoze, then you will need to install one... I myself have used Linux as that "Unix-like development platform" for the Windoze apps, mainly crosstools for embedded targets hosted on Windoze...
