hi, I'm thinking about using compose for my next p...

# compose-desktop

[Erik Bender]

hi, I'm thinking about using compose for my next project and have a question: Is it possible to create windows binaries on my linux machine?

[Big Chungus]

No as it's using jpackage under the hood which in turn requires wix build tools to build for windows.

See here

[Erik Bender]

thanks for the answer

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Is there any build system / toolchain / cross platform something that allows building binaries for other platforms?

[Big Chungus]

Kotlin/Native can build for windows from linux host 😄

[Big Chungus]

Although that's pretty recent.

[suresh]

s there any build system / toolchain / cross platform something that allows building binaries for other platforms?

golang, does this amazingly well (it’s easy because it doesn’t depends on libc). If you are not using cgo, you can cross compile to any of the supported target from any machine.

[suresh]

There is some research going on doing cross compilation as part of project leyden (static images to java) and they are positive about it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZtJirNv6o&t=881s▾

[tad]

GraalVM

[suresh]

@tad graal doesn’t do cross compilation