[Insight-users] Cross-compiling (lazy way) doubt

[Arturo Caissut]

Hi everybody,

I'm doing some ITK cross-compiling test with CMake, my aim is to build 
all of my Win32 compatible software from a GNU/Linux desktop. I created 
on my computer a Windows virtual machine that I run with VMPlayer, just 
to test the software I make, but since I had to compile some urgently 
needed pieces of software I decided to do it with Visual Studio on these 
virtual machine. In order to compile them, since they are ITK-based, I 
had to build Insight libraries before. Now that I'm reading about 
cross-compiling with CMake, I learn how it's necessary for me to have a 
copy of ITK libraries compiled for my project target machine on my 
GNU/Linux machine to do so.
Would it be wrong to just copy the ITK build tree I made from my virtual 
Windows system to my beloved GNU/Linux one and use these libraries for 
cross-compiling? Maybe cross-compiling ITK libraries for Windows and 
store them somewhere on my GNU/Linux system would be a better idea?

Maybe it's a silly question, but it's my first cross-compiling 
experience and I wouldn't like to waste too much time in cross-compiling 
again and again InsightToolkit just to discover I could easily copy it. :-)


Best regards,
Arturo Caissut