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In article <NEWTNews.28898.820780960.Mark@infotech.ipdial.ieunet.ie> Mark Tracey <mark@infotech.ie> writes:

> From: Mark Tracey <mark@infotech.ie>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c++
> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 96 10:38:42 PDT
> Organization: Ieunet Limited
> 
> 
> Could anyone tell me if there is a product available that would allow the 
> porting of Microsoft Visual C++ code to Unix, OS2 and Mac ?...
> 

Try the BRISTOL ( www.bristol.com ) company for porting Windows 
source code to MOTIF. MS-Visual C++ has a cross compiler for
the MAC in it.

Bye
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In article <NEWTNews.28898.820780960.Mark@infotech.ipdial.ieunet.ie>, Mark Tracey <mark@infotech.ie> writes:
> 
> Could anyone tell me if there is a product available that would allow the 
> porting of Microsoft Visual C++ code to Unix, OS2 and Mac ?...
> 
> Any help would be appreciate...
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mark...
> 

I have experience from writing code with a graphical user interface
that runs on either UNIX/Xwindows/gnu-C++ or stand-alone DOS/Windows/MVC++.
This is possible due to the fact that X-windows is designed to run
on any environment, including Microsoft Windows, and that the
MVC++ compiler supports most of the UNIX system calls.
All you need is some X-Windows server on each environment, the
knowledge and skill to program for X-windows, and users that accept X-windows 
behaviour inside your application. Otherwise the application behaves and
looks just as any other MS-windows application.

The X-windows product I used was eXceed4 from Hummingbird. It is now named
eXceed5. There are probably eXceed5 for OS2 and Mac as well, or any other
X-window server for those environments that will server the purpose.

The porting of the actual C++ source code was very simple in my case.
A few changes to support DOS filesystem, and such things.
Only the existing C preprocessor is needed, and a few ifdefs.

Using a Mac, CodeWarrior 8 Gold has code generation for Mac/MS-DOS/Win/Win95
environs. But Mac programming is quite different, so I don't see this as a
translator of sorts...

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Mark Tracey wrote:
> 
> Could anyone tell me if there is a product available that would allow the
> 
> porting of Microsoft Visual C++ code to Unix, OS2 and Mac ?...
> 
> Any help would be appreciate...
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mark...

depends on your needs...

If you are starting to develop NOW, develop for portability... perhaps use
a Cross Platform application framework such as Zinc, zApp, et al. (I would
not recommend MFC, as Mac users tend not to like their programs looking 
like they are running under M$ Windows.)

If you have Windoze code that needs porting, it's probably too late to 
change to Zinc, zApp et al so go for UWND / something from Bristol, ...
look in Dr Dobb's for adds about such products.

Cheers,
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Hello world,


use Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 !

It allows you to write applications for DOS, Win3.x,
Win95, Win NT and the MAC.

Porting source code to UNIX is quite different. I think
you should use the MOTIF libraries WinUD from the Bristol
company. Don't have expierience with it, but the web page
looks well (www.bristol.com).


Joerg

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In article <30F0680D.2DFF@zeta.org.au>, Ross McKay <rosko@zeta.org.au> wrote:

>Mark Tracey wrote:
>> 
>> Could anyone tell me if there is a product available that would allow the
>> 
>> porting of Microsoft Visual C++ code to Unix, OS2 and Mac ?...
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciate...
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Mark...
>
>depends on your needs...
>
>If you are starting to develop NOW, develop for portability... perhaps use
>a Cross Platform application framework such as Zinc, zApp, et al. (I would
>not recommend MFC, as Mac users tend not to like their programs looking 
>like they are running under M$ Windows.)

Not to mention being bloated, slow and unstable.


- rmgw

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