Compiling for Windows using GCC

GBGames · 2003-09-01T10:43:18

I want to be able to develop on multiple platforms (Linux, Win32, possibly Mac), so naturally I would like to just change a flag and recompile to create the different executables. As I might try to make shareware, I can''t just go out and buy a bunch of different compilers/IDEs. I am just looking for something free as in beer/speech that allows me to compile to multiple platforms. Google is not making it easy for me, but I did find a few things. - lcc is not free as in beer if I want to publish commercially, so this is not what I am looking for. - gcc is ideal, except I don''t know where to find the details for Win32 development. Again, with Google, I couldn''t find much info on it. Anything I did find made it sound like it has its own GPLed development tools, meaning that my code will have to be GPLed. While I appreciate the GPL, I would prefer to have the freedom to make my own license for my software. - MinGW is apparently some kind of set of free as in beer libraries and headers to use with GCC so that you can create Win32 binaries without the need for third party libraries (those that would affect the licensing of the software created). So the best I can think of is MinGW along with GCC. Anyone had experience with it? Anyone have any other solutions they know of that I just haven''t had the luck of finding?

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Started by GBGames August 08, 2003 03:59 PM

9 comments, last by GBGames 20 years, 7 months ago

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September 01, 2003 10:43 AM

Intel has a "only for noncommercial" license for the free download of their C/C++ compiler. I belive that they also including all binaries generated with their tool in that license?
If not should it be legal to take the generated .o files and link them with mingw under Windows.

Intel is pretty generous against linux users giving away a limited premier support with free download whenever a updated version is avaliable. Everything is free.

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