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Author VC++ application Compatibility
Visual Basic With Mac OS

2005-08-26, 3:55 am

Can i Know weather my Application which is deveeloped in VC++ in win OS
can Support Running in Other Platform OS such as Linux,UNIX,Mac,Solaries etc

If so what are all the Platforms it supports and how it can be done

if not can say me the areas where i face the problem and where can i get the
solution for that
Gerry Hickman

2005-09-05, 6:59 pm

Hi,

In my opionion, you'll have a hard time getting this to work. Using ANSI
C++ and the correct libs, you can certainly develop cross-platform apps,
but if you use Microsoft products you'll be locked tightly into Windows
and associated proprietary technologies. Apple have switched to OpenBSD,
but have put their own proprietary rubbish on top so it's a waste of
time. Check out Solaris and FreeBSD for servers, and Linux for clients.
Solaris is not open source yet though, and the parts released so far are
probably just a con to get people interested, then they'll pull the rug...

If you want an example of how to kick some serious cross-platform ass,
check out www.xvid.org

Visual Basic With Mac OS wrote:

> Can i Know weather my Application which is deveeloped in VC++ in win OS
> can Support Running in Other Platform OS such as Linux,UNIX,Mac,Solaries etc
>
> If so what are all the Platforms it supports and how it can be done
>
> if not can say me the areas where i face the problem and where can i get the
> solution for that



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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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