Re: Cross-platform?
Re: Cross-platform?
- Subject: Re: Cross-platform?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:33:18 -0800
I'd love to be able to write once on a Mac and to be able to
produce a Windows, LINUX and UNIX app from that...
You can do that with RealBasic. Despite the stigma associated with
it, it's a very good development environment.
Personally, I've found that even with trivial CLI programs,
supporting the major three OS' is not at all trivial. Linux & MacOS
X differ substantially in how they do certain basic things, and
Cygwin doesn't even pretend to be compatible with anything. In fact,
I ended up getting one large POSIX app to work under true Windows
(using a trivial compatibility layer) before I could get it to even
compile with Cygwin.
Trying to use a generic UI toolkit is almost always asking for
trouble - all they do is guarantee your interface looks and works
consistently bad across all platforms. As people have said, a native
front-end is a must for any serious app. And when I say frontend,
I'm including things like file I/O and basic OS services. Anything
that involves a system call. There are some cross-platform libraries
which abstract all these fundamental things, which can be quite handy
to use. I'm not particularly familiar with any of them, but a quick
Google will deliver a plethora of choices.
Wade
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