On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:02 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: > 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. > Qt is also cross-platform, and there are GTK+ and Glade ports for Windows as well. The standard Win32 GUI is not available for Linux, though, AFAIK, other than via Wine. > Pete > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
