Re: linux to windows porting help

"vamsi" <vamsi.komati@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi guys,

I am working on a project that involves porting c programs from
linux environment to windows environment. It would be great if anyone
could provide references on getting an overview on the pre-requisite
knowledege one should have to do a smooth porting.
Maybe it would be a "good" investment, to use libraries which are
known to work on both platforms. As Richard has pointed out out if it
"just" used Standard C there will be no problem. His suggestions on
network stuff sound reasonable to me, GUI-Toolkits migth be a real
problem. I just can confirm that GTK+ works fine on Unices and
Windows (even if recompiling is a thing one probably does not like to
do on Windows).

We have gone the other direction some years ago, and we did have to
port a Development environment from a windows system to a linux box,
that was quite some work, tedious and erro prone.

If I had to work on such stuff this days I would try to use
cross-platform libraries as much as I could. Here are some libraries
worth considering
- libapr
- glib
- libxml2
- libcurl

and probably a tons of others, but you get quite far with this
tool-chain (IMHO)

Regards
Friedrich



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