> Don't say "but I code on it". If you're a coder, you're already a specialized use case.
Unless you're a microsoft shop that's not necessarily the case. We have windows boxes which are only there so we can compile for MS targets. If there was a way to cross-compile we wouldn't need them. As it is we manage to survive in a bubble created by cygwin. I think marketing uses windows boxes though.
Debian has Windows cross-compilers. You can even build Windows installers without leaving Linux, using NSIS. You could even test under Wine, that probably doesn't cut it though.
That's crazy talk. Nobody (except some outsider outliers) developers on Debian to deploy on Windows, no matter what experimental, half-working cross-compilters it has...
The mingw cross-compilers have been around for like a decade, are far from experimental and work great. Many open source projects use them to produce executables for Windows users.
Unless you're a microsoft shop that's not necessarily the case. We have windows boxes which are only there so we can compile for MS targets. If there was a way to cross-compile we wouldn't need them. As it is we manage to survive in a bubble created by cygwin. I think marketing uses windows boxes though.