develop windoze apps using linux

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Do you need to deliver a binary or just source code?

If you need to give them a compiled program, developing on Linux is more trouble than it's worth: Windows and Linux can't execute each other's binaries without some serious help from emulation layers and imported APIs; they don't even have a binary format in common (Linux uses ELF, Windows uses EXE or COFF or something else I'm not aware of).

If you just need to give them source code, it's probably still more trouble than it's worth unless you just need to create a command-line program that can be accomplished using only ANSI-standard C or standard C++. If you need to paint a window on the screen or parse a bizarre proprietary data format, the program is dependent upon nonstandard APIs which most likely do not exist on both Linux and Windows. (You can do graphics portably by calling into some APIs that exist on both Linux and Windows, but very few Windows machines have those APIs installed. You'd need to distribute, or tell them where to find, a rather beefy set of libraries just to run the program.)

The short answer is that it is either just barely possible or entirely impossible, and most likely not worth trying to accomplish in either case. You might have better luck with DJGPP and a Windows version of Emacs.

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