[CMake] Cross-platform build under Windows targeting Linux

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-06-10 04:52, setareh S wrote:
> Now, I want to build my code for Linux platform(GNU/Linux) on a Win32
> platform. I tried doing the above procedure using CMake combined with
> Cygwin and using gcc and g++ as compilers. It built fine, created
> makefiles, and when I issued "make" in Cygwin terminal, the generated
> makefiles were "made". Now I have got an executable which I was hoping
> would run on Linux platform. But on Linux I get the error: bash cannot
> execute binary file.
>
> Using command file executablename, I realized the executable which is made
> by the above procedure is of type PE32 which is only for Windows.

Are the compilers you are using cross-compilers, or the ones that came 
with cygwin? The normal cygwin gcc/g++ compilers target cygwin on win32 
and are not cross-compilers.

-- 
Matthew