Notes from CentraLUG, 7-April-2008, Coleman Kane, FOSS on Win32

[Ted Roche (Personal)]

Eight people attended the April meeting of the Central New Hampshire 
Linux User Group, held as usual at the New Hampshire Technical Institute 
Library, Room 146, on the first Monday of the month (see below, we're 
evicted until fall).

Coleman Kane was the main presenter, showing us how the MinGW and GNU 
binutil packages could be used to create a cross-compiling environment 
to create Windows-compatible binaries on Linux (or actually, starting 
from BSD in Coleman's case). He had a great slide deck and example 
source (available at his website at: 
http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/talks/dev-mingw) and was able to push 
through 55 slides in 75 minutes in a comprehensible fashion. The pace 
was fast and furious as he covered all of the highlights, took questions 
from the audience, edited and compiled code, and switched the projector 
between his BSD box and a Windows machine to show the code running. 
Whew! Well done and very informative!

CentraLUG's meetings will be on the road for the summer. The library 
will be closed for evenings during finals week (!) and the summer hours 
have the library closing at 6 PM until fall semester begins. "See you in 
... October!" We'll be announcing the location for upcoming meetings 
Real Soon Now. You'll want to see Ben Scott's May presentation on "The 
Linux Server That Could: Setting up a Small Office Server" so put the 
date of May 5th on the calendar now!

Thanks to Colman for his great presentation, to Bill Sconce for 
providing the nice projector, to the Tech for providing the facilities 
and to all who attended for their attention and participation.