Hi, I wanted to ask if you can suggest an open source C/C++ compiler for wine.. (To compile and get executables for wine). Thanks, A.
Wine itself is full C due to the differences between C++ compilers and being full C allows wine to respond how C++ built applications expect. To build wine you normally use the platform gcc complier. iceblue25.1 Number 1 wine really should not be looked at as platform to develop applications for. winelib maybe make porting simpler maybe make porting harder. Linux Standard Base, qt( http://qt.nokia.com/ ) and other solutions should be looked it for you are wanting to build applications to run on many platforms. qt particularly. For testing lot of cases mingw cross complier is used is used. http://www.mingw.org/ Yes a lot of time I use qt since it gives me cross platform. Also remember MS is about ready with windows 8 to pull another Windows API reshuffle. So really not a good time to be building applications directly dependent on it.
> Linux Standard Base, qt( http://qt.nokia.com/ ) and other solutions should be looked it for you are wanting to build applications to run on many platforms. ?qt particularly.I agree. Take a look at Qt. In 2008 when I started using open source cross platform libraries (instead of developing my own) to help display and process my medical imaging research, I decided it was time to evaluate moving to a framework that was also cross platform. A second motivation for this was MFC had begun to show signs of abandonment from Microsoft. At that point I was a MFC / windows developer for over a decade. It was a lot of work at first to move to a new platform and at the same time develop a new application but in the end I am very happy with the result and I wish I used Qt long ago. -- John M. Drescher