Re: Linux C header files on Windows?
From: Keith Thompson (kst-u_at_mib.org)
Date: 03/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:53:54 GMT
"Ahmed S. Badran" <a_badran@hotmail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to do linux development on Windows platform (to make use of
> editors and such)? The main problem I'm facing is that I'm not sure if there
> are 'linux' header files that I can have on windows. I've been told about
> cygwin but then going quickly through its documentation I noticed it's a
> windows port of the unix environment but not the header files. Basically
> what I want is to have all the C/C++ header files of linux on windows.
This is pretty much off-topic; take my answer with a grain of salt,
and consider it mostly as a vague pointer to more accurate
information. The comp.lang.c crowd in general can't be expected to
correct the inevitable mistakes I'll make in talking about Windows,
Cygwin, Linux, gcc, etc. (though they're very good at correcting my
equally inevitable C mistakes).
One approach you might consider is simply to install Cygwin and do
your development in that environment. (I'm assuming you can use your
Windows IDE with Cygwin.) The Cygwin environment, if you install it
will all the available options, does include gcc and a full set of
header files. The environment is very similar, but not identical, to
Linux.
When you're ready, you can copy your code to a Linux system and build
it there. You may run into some Cygwin/Linux incompatibilities; if
so, consider modifying your code so it works under both environments.
Do this fairly often as you're developing the code, so you find errors
as early as possible.
On the other hand, if the code you want to develop is going to be so
Linux-specific that it's not worth it to make it work under Cygwin as
well, this approach may not work.
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