Is it possible to develop for Windows 8 on Debian?

Question

linux

Is it possible? If yes, how to do it?
It costs debian 7. I don't really want to install Windows. If you run it on a virtual machine, everything will slow down.

Answer 1

1. Virtual machine:
a) in the editor of the studio, braking will still be felt. Small, but still noticeable to the eye. Since the display will go through the virtualization system driver.
b) If you make the disk auto-scaling, you will also get slowdown on accessing the disk. Again, small, but in my tests sometimes up to 50%. And this will affect the speed of compilation.
2. wine + VisualStudio. Here is the link: appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicat...there is a compatibility list of studios with wine. Of the minuses (from my experience), the fonts of an application running under wine do not look so hot. Worse than others in Windows and worse than other fonts of a native linux application. Therefore, I do not recommend it for permanent use. Well, in order to make it work, you may have to tinker.
3. In general, the main question is: what are you going to develop on?
a) If C or C ++, under cygwin, then put on your host any development environment that supports remote compilation and debugging (and this is almost any) and on a Windows virtual machine with a minimum amount of memory. Only for the work of the compiler and your application. + gcc/gdb/etc
b) C#/.NET. You can develop on mono + monodevelop. But this does not guarantee 100% performance of your application under Windows if it works normally on linux + mono. That is, then you still need to test and debug under Windows.

Answer 2

In such situations, the good old analogy with the keywords "hammock" "coitus" "upright position" comes to mind.
You can use a terminal with Windows, as an option, but goodbye mobility "I hacked on the plane, hacked in the village after the bath."

Answer 3

If you run it on a virtual machine, everything will slow down.

Nonsense. If your computer is not 10 years old, it won't.
But why then Linux, if the development will still be carried out in a virtual machine?

Answer 4

2 times I had to write console programs from under linux for windows (Creating backups, etc.) I used mono (ide monodevelop), in principle there were no unsolvable problems (not counting problems with debugging).

Answer 5

Strongly depends on tasks. Mono is Mono, but any tricky win-locked may not work, to put it mildly.
Put Windows in dual boot + free express version of the studio for the desired development option - c ++, sharp, web. and work for yourself.