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- From: Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Solaris code -> Windows NT?
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:04:53 +0000
- Organization: SkyMap Software
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- In article <314ED5A2.2CF7@ccm.fm.intel.com>, "Aaron C. Coday"
- <aaron_coday@ccm.fm.intel.com> writes
- >Has anyone out there ported signficant amount of code from Solaris
- >to Windows NT? If so, I would like to hear about it. Particularly
- >any pitfalls, etc.
- >
- >I'm facing possibly porting a large project to Windows NT. As I
- >understand it, it should be easier than trying to port to
- >Windows 3.x, because Solaris and NT both use flat memory models.
-
- In my "day job" I work on and maintain the NT version of a large
- distributed application development toolkit which runs on a dozen
- different varieties of Unix, as well as NT, OS/2, VMS etc. I did the
- original port from Unix to NT of this product.
-
- It really is pretty easy; Unix code written with portability in mind (as
- our code is) ports pretty much straight off to NT. For networking, NT's
- socket library is virtually the same as the standard Unix Berkeley
- sockets library, and almost all Unix system calls have 1:1 equivalents
- in NT.
-
- You really shouldn't have too many problems.
-
- Chris
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