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Felix Urbasik | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 So, like many #GameDev #programming folks, I'm doing a bit of saturday work from home to support the project as it is getting closer to release.

Since my home desktop is primarily a #Linux system, I decided to try and see if I could compile a #Windows game without Windows.

Short answer: No. I could not. 

There is actually an #AUR package that gives you a working #MSVC compiler in #Wine, but there is no way to get #MSBuild to work to build .sln and .vcxproj files.

I wonder how much worse the build time would be in a VM 🤔

#cpp #cpp20 #cplusplus
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9b0e7efa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @98025892
Mingw-w64 will get you the cross compiler but you're likely stuck on the sln and.vcxproj files. Those are specific to Visual Studio. You'll need to look into make or the like to get a binary.