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Pretty sure that C++ and Qt is what you want. Maybe not perfect in every sense, but widely used and battle-tested.

If you don't want to deal with Windows, you can cross-compile for Windows from Linux using the mingw-* packages (eg https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW or the Debian or SUSE equivalents).

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Or you can use preconfigured cross-compilation toolchain like MXE[1]. If you have clean codebase and use CMake it's usually enough to just pass one extra argument to get working binary out. And it's also work on OS X.

[1] http://mxe.cc/

MXE has an ok reputation. Not everything seems to play well with it though. :(

For example, we (sqlitebrowser.org) compile our window nightly releases from Linux, using MXE. But, SQLCipher (an encryption library) doesn't build with MXE. So the nightlies don't support encryption.

Meanwhile, we've figured out how to do full Windows dev setup and builds. eg:

  https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/wiki/Setting-up-a-Win64-development-environment-for-DB4S

We're building our releases natively now, and the nightlies will be built natively too in (hopefully near) future.

Guess we just outgrew MXE?

Yes, I'm compiling for Windows using mingw64. I gave up with VC because, it worked, but since Windows 10, the MS dynamic runtime contains parts of the OS. This doesn't always install properly on windows 7 & 8. Mingw worked.

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