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Ralph Krausse - 16 Jul 2004 19:16 GMT

I am looking for some info and opinions on cross platform development. We
wish to port/create applications for Windows and Unix. Now I am NOT a UNIX
person so when I say UNIX, I am saying Red Hat, Linspire, Suse, Solarix,
etc. I am not sure if these all fall under the UNIX umbrella but I am
putting them there till I am told differently. I am looking for products
that will let me build my application using Visual Studio and then cross
compile it for different targets, hopefully within VC. Does something like
this exist?

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Keith - 16 Jul 2004 19:22 GMT

Source Forge hosts quite a few cross platform development projects.
www.sourceforge.net

I believe there is a UNIX version of the .NET compiler being built there.

> I am looking for some info and opinions on cross platform development. We
> wish to port/create applications for Windows and Unix. Now I am NOT a UNIX
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> compile it for different targets, hopefully within VC. Does something like
> this exist?

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Harold Howe - 23 Jul 2004 20:38 GMT

> I am looking for some info and opinions on cross platform development. We
> wish to port/create applications for Windows and Unix. Now I am NOT a UNIX
> person so when I say UNIX

I assume you are talking about C or unmanaged C++, correct?

You may want to take a look at how doxygen is built. They have dsw's and
dsp's for building from the VS6 ide. They also have an automake/make
system for building from the command line on other platforms. The
makefiles use gnu make and gcc. I was able to build from the command
line under cygwin on windows. You could set up a similar environment
with vs.net.

You mentioned cross compiling right from vs.net. I can't offer any
advice there. Cross compiling linux and unix binaries from a windows
maching is not typically done I think (but I could be wrong). I don't
know of any products that do this.

If you want to create cross platform .net apps, look at the mono project.

H^2

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