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I just noticed an SDTimes promotion for a "cross platform build seminar" in my email:

John Graham-Cumming, chief scientist at Electric Cloud, Inc., will discuss how to build a manageable cross-platform build system using GNU Make. The system is flexible, capable of supporting many different platforms (including Windows, Linux, and all versions of Unix) and easy to maintain. He'll also outline a strategy for migrating an existing build system to a clearer Makefile structure that incorporates the ideas presented.

I have a better idea - visit our site, start up VisualWorks, and build an application. Ready for the cross platform build part? Just build the application on one of our supported platforms, and then deploy it. That's what I do with BottomFeeder. I bet my solution is simpler than theirs, and it doesn't require a full seminar to explain, either :)