Re: Porting a Unix/X11 Package to Windows

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Brian McGrew wrote:
Good morning,

I've been tasked with porting a long standing Unix (SunOS/Solaris/Linux) / X11 application to Windows. Half of our code is straight C++/STL and will port with no problems. The other half is very much dependant on X11/Motif for callbacks such as XtAppAddTimeout and XEvent and XtAppNextEvent, things like that!

Can someone point me to a Unix->Windows porting guide? I've gotta beleive that I'm not the first to ever point a Unix app to Windows and there's got to be a guide out there somewhere but possibly I'm just googling the wrong terms becuase I'm not finding what I want.

Brian:

I don't have anything specific to say about porting, but I would have thought the first thing you need to do is decide what kind of Windows application you want to end up with. There are three standard types:

1. Native application using Win32 SDK
2. Native MFC application
3. .Net application

There also some other libraries available for native applications:

4. WTL
5. Wxwidgets
6. QT

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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