Build for Windows on a Mac

[Salsa Boy]

I've been looking everywhere and have found no answer to this question. I'm on Eclipse CDT and I can build Mac programs fine, but cannot build for Windows at all. I've discovered that if I rename the "Windows" build to an app, it runs like it was built for Mac, so it's obviously not even building as a Windows program. How do I do this properly?

[Thomas1965]

I think there is no way to build a windows app on your mac.
You have to compile it on windows to run it on windows.

If you want a "compile once, run everywhere" solution you better use Java

[Salsa Boy]

I don't want a "compile once, run everywhere" solution. I just want to build an exe on a mac. I don't think there is no way to do it, there's got to be a tool somewhere.

[coder777]

Actually it is not simple since you need the libraries from windows. It is possible.

There are two possible cross compler: Clang and Gnu/MinGW.

Maybe you can even configure Eclipse for this. You just need some reseach in order to find all you need for your project.

[Salsa Boy]

So would it be easier to just build it on a seperate Windows computer?

[coder777]

Definitely

[Salsa Boy]

OK, thanks.

[E0p9LyTq]

There are several 3rd party GUI libraries available to make cross-platform GUI programming easier.

The Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) is used by Bjarne Stroustrup in his "Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++" text book.

http://www.fltk.org/index.php

wxWidgets is another:
https://wxwidgets.org/