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- From: euahjn@eua.ericsson.se (Henrik Johansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Multi-Platform code porting
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 06:59:37 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
- Message-ID: <4cii8p$ifu@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>
- References: <NEWTNews.28898.820780960.Mark@infotech.ipdial.ieunet.ie>
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- In article <NEWTNews.28898.820780960.Mark@infotech.ipdial.ieunet.ie>, Mark Tracey <mark@infotech.ie> writes:
- >
- > Could anyone tell me if there is a product available that would allow the
- > porting of Microsoft Visual C++ code to Unix, OS2 and Mac ?...
- >
- > Any help would be appreciate...
- >
- > TIA
- >
- > Mark...
- >
-
- I have experience from writing code with a graphical user interface
- that runs on either UNIX/Xwindows/gnu-C++ or stand-alone DOS/Windows/MVC++.
- This is possible due to the fact that X-windows is designed to run
- on any environment, including Microsoft Windows, and that the
- MVC++ compiler supports most of the UNIX system calls.
- All you need is some X-Windows server on each environment, the
- knowledge and skill to program for X-windows, and users that accept X-windows
- behaviour inside your application. Otherwise the application behaves and
- looks just as any other MS-windows application.
-
- The X-windows product I used was eXceed4 from Hummingbird. It is now named
- eXceed5. There are probably eXceed5 for OS2 and Mac as well, or any other
- X-window server for those environments that will server the purpose.
-
- The porting of the actual C++ source code was very simple in my case.
- A few changes to support DOS filesystem, and such things.
- Only the existing C preprocessor is needed, and a few ifdefs.
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