Question

I’m a beginner with programming, and I’ve been doing work in C/C++ in Ubuntu. When I tell something to cin/cout/cerr or printf/scanf or take arguments from the command line, this all happens from the linux terminal in Ubuntu.

Now if I want to run these same programs (very simple programs, beginner-level) and run them in Windows, how do I run them from the Windows command line? A previous course I’ve taken had us download cygwin to simulate the linux command line in windows, but what if I want to just run the program from the ordinary windows command line? Is that possible, and does it require modification of the software?

Answer 1

You can cross-compile the program for Windows from linux.

On Ubuntu, process is basically this:

sudo apt-get install wine mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime

…

i586-mingw32msvc-g++ -o myProgram.exe myProgram.cpp

Easy, right? Google for “ubuntu cross-compile windows,” there’s a ton of information out there.