Before I give it a try myself, has anybody tested Pelle's C on ReactOS ? Any opinion on this zany idea of mine ?
I've tinkered with ReactOS for brief periods of time over its long history. I've never installed Pelles C
on ReactOS but I have run small apps on ReactOS that were compiled with Pelles C and they seemed
to run just fine. I would be surprised if Pelles C could not be installed and used on ReactOS.
There is nothing zany about wanting to use
Pelles C on
ReactOS. ReactOS strives for and largely
succeeds at binary compatibility with Windows, especially XP, in my experience. If you've
not yet installed ReactOS on bare metal, you could first install it on
VirtualBox and then (attempt to)
install Pelles C on top of that image. That should tell you whether you should go any further in your
explorations.
I don't know if there is a 64-bit version of ReactOS. If not, you will need to install an older 32-bit version
of Pelles C.
It is fun to tinker ... so just do it.