Never use any compiler specific extensions and compile everything with something like
g++ -Wall -pedantic -ansi
As long as the other compiler is ansi compliant you shoulnd't have any problem.
I've done this lots of times. To name a few:
* Using Visual C++ for developing for a HC16 processor (just recompiling with the appropriate compiler later. Created a massive HAL/HEL for that, but since the hardware prototype wasn't done yet I saved the company lots of time by being able to have code up and running before the hardware could even power up.)
* Using g++ for developing windows apps (did the algorithms in g++, doing the hardware specific stuff in VC++)
* UN*X (Solaris actually) programming using VC++. Since it was console only, the only thing I needed to do was recompile the code. No errors, no warnings, and a fully working program.
Unless you have to write platform specific code ofcourse, but if you're set on using g++ as development platform an emulation layer isn't that hard to implement.
I say, try to write code as portable as possible! Don't rely on nonstandard libraries. Unless they're ported already or you want to implement them yourself under the new platform.
I thought Linux users, and especially Linux users that find the content on Freshmeat interesting, were the 'upper-class' of the 'Net, thus having some kind of knowledge of the most basic rules of behaviour on the net, namely the netiquette.
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...if you're writing your code portable?
Never use any compiler specific extensions and compile everything with something like
g++ -Wall -pedantic -ansi
As long as the other compiler is ansi compliant you shoulnd't have any problem.
I've done this lots of times. To name a few:
* Using Visual C++ for developing for a HC16 processor (just recompiling with the appropriate compiler later. Created a massive HAL/HEL for that, but since the hardware prototype wasn't done yet I saved the company lots of time by being able to have code up and running before the hardware could even power up.)
* Using g++ for developing windows apps (did the algorithms in g++, doing the hardware specific stuff in VC++)
* UN*X (Solaris actually) programming using VC++. Since it was console only, the only thing I needed to do was recompile the code. No errors, no warnings, and a fully working program.
Unless you have to write platform specific code ofcourse, but if you're set on using g++ as development platform an emulation layer isn't that hard to implement.
I say, try to write code as portable as possible! Don't rely on nonstandard libraries. Unless they're ported already or you want to implement them yourself under the new platform.
I thought Linux users, and especially Linux users that find the content on Freshmeat interesting, were the 'upper-class' of the 'Net, thus having some kind of knowledge of the most basic rules of behaviour on the net, namely the netiquette.
I'm sad to see I was wrong.
//Henrik Gustafsson