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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:07PM (#25250376)
The company that forced me to buy a mac to develop for them?
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by msie on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:30PM (#25250465)
How about Windows? Did someone force you to buy a computer to develop for it?
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by aruggirello on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:03AM (#25251996)
You can pretty much develop software for Windows on other platforms too. Cross compilation is supported in several languages, and when you can't - you can usually compile stuff under Wine, or even ReactOS. So while obviously you need a computer, you don't strictly need Windows.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by aspyct on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:38AM (#25252190)
Yes you do need Windows. Wine is great, but there's no way I'll publicly release a windows application that hasn't been tested on an actual windows install.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by Summershard on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:38AM (#25252439)
Microsoft gives virtual images of their OS for free for development. You can work on any platform and test on VMs.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by heavyset_go on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:34PM (#25257193)
You can cross-compile from other OSes using MinGW and test via the free Windows VMs that Microsoft distributes. You can also download the free Windows development VMs and develop from them exclusively.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by netsharc on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:59AM (#25251975)
In theory one could do Windows dev on hard mode (on Linux/Mac): get one of the Windows virtual machines that Microsoft provides to test for old IE compatibility (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...), install the freely available compilers (or even the open source Cygwin one), and code away!
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by heavyset_go on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:35PM (#25257213)
Microsoft distributes free Windows VMs with developer tools installed for the explicit purpose of developing on Windows, there's no need to use their IE images.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:39AM (#25254843)
I wasn't clear enough. I meant I'm forced to buy a Mac to develop for iPhone.
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