Compiling Windows executables on a Mac

[drdrecad]

Dear all,
we are working on a multiplatform project and we have our development machines running on MacOS. However, the ultimate target system is a Windows machine. Apart from doing this the traditional way, i.e. by running a VM, installing Windows and compiling, I was wondering if we could use Uno to simply build the executables directly from our MacOS environment, as that would save us a lot of time.

Please let me know what your thoughts are.

BR

[jeromelaban]

Could you tell which projects heads you want to run on Windows? Is it the .Windows head or another (like the .Gtk one)?

[drdrecad]

Hi Jerome, I am not quite sure how to answer your question. The idea is to simply be able to compile a Windows Forms or WPF project directly on MacOS, not necessarily run it there. BR

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[jeromelaban]

Windows Forms is not a project type that Uno handles directly, so I cannot tell. WPF may be buildable on mac, but there may be tricks there. In all cases, you should be able to rely on a CI environment to provide you this kind of binaries.

I was asking about the .Windows project because it is a WinUI/WinAppSDK project, and this type of project does not build on mac.