[olug] C programming question (cross-compiling under Linux to run on Windows).

[Christopher Cashell]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> I agree, I could find a lot more code in Perl (and probably easier to work
> with too), but this piece has to work on fairly stock Windows boxes without
> loading a lot of additional requirements into it.  I know Perl on Windows is
> pretty small -- 17MB download -- but that's too big of a change to make
> right now.  I just need to fix the bugs and move on.  *sigh*

I don't know what kind of shape it's in yet (I know it's listed as a
beta release), but the Strawberry Perl guys are working on a
"portable" install, too.  It's entirely self-contained and doesn't
change or interfere with the rest of the Windows system.  It's
primarily intended for use on things like USB flash/thumb drives, but
it could be very useful on boxes where you don't want to affect the
current Windows installation/configuration.

I don't know if that would be an option or not, but it might be worth
looking into.

> Dan

-- 
Christopher