From: Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Paul G. Allen wrote:
So, I'm wondering what the programmers out there like as far as a C
library, toolkit, what-have-you for cross-platform application
development.
Does mingw not fit the bill?
Although, cross-platform socket programming is painful. It's better to use
Java for that.
Funny I've written cross platform socket apps with minimal effort. The
interface is 99% the same across most Unixes and Windows. The only
exceptions I can think of are
*gethostbyname_r requires different parameters for all the Unix types
*MSG_PEEK flag on Windows is completely broken. If you need to peek, you
need to write your own buffer layer. Of course, you frequently want to do
that anyway.
*select on windows only allows tcp or udp, not both
*asynchronous IO interface is different, but easily abstractable to a common
interface
Its really not that bad. Nowhere near as bad as GUI programming.
Gabe
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