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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:14:02 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> A fairer comparison is building a significant 100-module C program on
> Linux, and even better is trying to use that exact same process to
> build the same app on Windows (which is exactly what many open-source
> cross-platform apps expect you to do).
[...]

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  If a software package is normally
built with "configure;make;make install", nobody expects it to build in
exactly the same way on Windows *unless* there's a compatibility layer
such as Cygwin, MinGW, or MSYS2.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */