From: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:24:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty
Message-ID: <CAH=ZcbDGaxiW=QCTrRo3YqxS-rY0e5h5PrnKQt9htJfn4firJA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <002c01dc2a95$400315f0$c00941d0$@nexbridge.com>

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
> >What I meant was: Is there a compiler that can be compiled to both NonStop and
> >Linux. What is the name of the C++17 compiler that you use on NonStop? Is there a
> >Linux or Windows cross compiler that can target NonStop?
>
> We have c99, c11, c17. The only Windows cross compiler is c99, but that requires
> a license from HPE that I cannot provide. There are not non-commercial compilers
> available that can be used to cross compile. Also, standard configure processing
> does not work on Windows for NonStop.

If C/C++ can be cross compiled from Windows to a NonStop target, then
why does Git need to run on NonStop itself? Why couldn't you use Git
on Windows and then copy the compiled executables to your NonStop
targets?