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ElSajko
ElSajko

Reputation: 1640

Compile C++ code under windows for linux, as ready to run

Im new about compile code for linux. It's propably Debian 5.0. And I need compile my cpp code for it as ready to run, i mean the other person can easly run program like in Windows, by just clicking on it.

Anybody can help?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1608

Answers (3)

Stephen Newell
Stephen Newell

Reputation: 7828

Assuming you want to be able to compile something on Windows and have it work on any Linux machine, that's simply not possible. Debian and Ubuntu both support many architectures, many of which have absolutely no binary compatibility. If you know what type of hardware your friend has you can build a binary targeted to that architecture.

If you want a quick and dirty answer, you can build for i386 since a 64bit machine can probably still run it fine (not guaranteed though).

Upvotes: 0

Icarus
Icarus

Reputation: 63956

Once you compile it, you can easily create a shortcut on the Desktop -or add an entry on a menu- to launch your program via a script; something like:

#!/bin/bash
/path/to/your/progam

Save it as launch.sh -for example- and give it ugo+x permissions as such

chmod ugo+x launch.sh

When you create the shortcut, you can associate a icon to your script exactly in the same way you do it in Windows.

UPDATE

If you are sending the compiled program to your friend (let's assume via email). You can simply instruct your friend to launch the terminal window in the same directory where he downloaded your file and run the following:

chmod ugo+x your_program
./your_program

Or you can send him 2 files: one with your program and one with a "launch" script as I described above. Since both files will be downloaded to the same directory, you can change your launch script to:

#!/bin/bash
./your_program

When he clicks on launch.sh, your program will be executed.

Upvotes: 0

user1356386
user1356386

Reputation:

I use virtualbox for this. It's easy and convenient. You can run multiple Linux distros and multiple versions of Windows provided you have the proper licenses. You can also run subversion, etc on each virtual machine so that you can sync your changes across all of them when building.

Upvotes: 1

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