Using XCode to build Windows apps?

[RogueWarrior]

I realize such a question is sacreligous but has anyone tried doing
cross-platform development under XCode?

[Sherm Pendley]

"RogueWarrior" <in...@northernlights3d.com> writes:

> I realize such a question is sacreligous

Sacrilige? That's a religious word - this is a technical question. I don't
understand the relevance.

> but has anyone tried doing
> cross-platform development under XCode?

Yes. There's a cross-compiler on darwin ports that uses Cygwin to target
Windows. I've used that to build a simple "hello world" app with plain
vanilla Win32, and to build full Qt apps for Windows.

I cheated a bit for Qt, and built Qt itself on a "real" Windows machine,
then copied the libraries & header files over. I found this page useful;
it describes building Qt/Windows apps on Linux, but it's basically the
same on Mac OS X:

<http://silmor.de/29>

But I used plain old makefiles in the first case, and Qt's build scripts
for the second. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work under
Xcode though. If nothing else, you could simply use Xcode's support for
"foreign" targets to have it run "make" for you.

sherm--

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