[lug] Programming

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

On 21 Feb 2003 13:44:26 -0700
jd <lug at taproot.bz> wrote:

> wow, thats neat...didn't know that :) I will definitely try this..
> On a side note...I would like to learn a compiled language
> that will work for Windoz and Linux. If I start learning
> MS Visual C++, Could i write c++ progs for Linux with it?
> I know this is probably a dumb question :)

	Well, there are a couple of options (at least) that you can
look at here. 

	One is Delphi/Kylix - I've had no luck taking a Windows/Delphi
program and compiling it under Kylix. But I think that if you start
with portability in mind you'd be able to do much better.

	The other is to look at a Framework - I'm currently rewriting
the above program using wxWindows which is a) open source, b) c++, and
c) attempts to look as much like the native platform as possible.

	I'm compiling the windows version of the program with mingw32
set up as a cross compiler and testing under Wine (and a real version
of windows through a friend.)

	There are probably other frameworks that would let you do the
same thing.

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