I’ve used mingw in the past, the exe usually is 10x the size and wants the entire binary of any library used as well and first requires you to download the source windows version of the lib and link it. Meaning a small SDL2 project on Linux was I think 100kib while on windows it was 1mib + 2.5 mib
Windows has dll hell… so basically, to ge around this, some tools statically link by default. It’s not an ideal solution, but it works most of the time… and regarding how unmainatained a Windows install might be (old installs, like Win7) or how badly updated/upgraded it might be (newer installs, Win10 and 11), I guess it is the only choice you actually have to make your app run on as many Windows systems as possible.
Best I can do is make an elf that mostly works and the memory manager seems pretty solid but the second you start doing stuff with strings, it fucks all up and I never figured out that bug after months so it is what it is. If you want to print a string you have to drop into real mode first.
You want me to compile it best i can do is a git repo. And thats if it runs on windows in the first place.
@muntedcrocodile @0x4E4F should be able to run dosbox on any platform tho [gives you turbo pascal source]
Not really a solution if it has a GUI, dosbox only runs command line stuff.
Well that’s not at all true, but it won’t have the graphical environment you want.
What do you mean, dosbox can run programs with a GUI? Didn’t know that…
If it couldn’t do graphics it wouldn’t be very useful for old games. You can run Windows 3.1, or used to haven’t tried in a while. But it’s not what is needed here even if it can.
Do it the long way and compile in a vm.
Simply install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store.
I was able to use this guys docker image and tool in order to cross compile my Rust programs in the past. They were very simple programs so I dont know how well it works for larger projects.
You could even cross-compile from musl… very cool 👍!
Is it’s C, you could use Cosmopolitan
No, it’s Vala… and it’s not my project, client just wants this to run on Windows.
They should just use reverse-wine, if that exists.
Wish it did…
