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> I've been looking into "best" ways of creating Windows GUI apps from Linux and apart from C/Cpp with native Windows APIs most options seem to focus on React Native and web technologies.

Have you considered Lazarus? I use it with plain C for the logic (not C++).

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Oh, thanks for the pointer. I've seen it before but never used it. Can it compile a Windows exe file on my Linux system?

Edit: I can't seem to find a clear mention of cross-compilation on the lazarus website, and a web search points me to several free pascal wikis. On the Lazarus IDE website it mostly mentions that Lazarus IDE itself can run on both Windows and Linux. Ideally I'd do everything on Linux and ship an exe to Windows, but this seems to be very hard to do nowadays.

First search result: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Cross_compiling_for_Windows_unde...

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