BB = Bo Berglund
BB>> 3) The program is written in C++, would there be big
BB> porting issues moving it from Windows to Linux, code-wise?
SV = Sam Varshavchik
SV> That depends upon what libraries your C++ code uses.
SV> If it uses Windows-specific libraries, any GUI libraries,
SV> they are obviously not available on Linux.
Sam,
I work at a company where we use wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/)
for all of our GUI development in C++. All of our apps our built to run
on 32-bit Windows using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and both 32-bit and
64-bit versions of Fedora using GCC. Fedora, via yum, provides a
packaged version of wxWidgets, but we usually build it from the
wxWidgets SVN repository.
No code modifications are required to build the apps on Windows vs.
Fedora, so I guess I would disagree with your statement "any GUI
libraries, they are obviously not available on Linux", but I would agree
that most projects do not consider cross-platform GUI development when
they are initially developed, so they are not using a library like
wxWidgets.
Hope that helps with any cross-platform GUI development anyone out there
is considering.
Pete
