Its not practical to have object code that is executable on both linux and windows. With careful programming you can write C/C++ code that is portable, but its not easy. For windowing QT is probably your best cross-platform choice. As soon as you delve into any I/O, or any hardware specific function you're likely to commit yourself to an OS.

as for you particular app, if you're just pulling DB tables, you can use a variety of connectors which are cross platform. If youre trying to customize Mysql in some other way, it would really depend on the particular problem.

in all, this sounds like a job for Java which does have good MySQL support.

-jmz

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jon M. Hanson <jon@the-hansons-az.net> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:02:20AM -0700, keith smith wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of writing a small application that can run on both Linux and Windows written in GCC C/C++ that will utilize MySql running on Linux .
>
> Initially I need the application to run on Windows XP or Vista and connect to the Linux box to access MySql.
>
> Is it possible to write an application using GCC that will run both on Linux and Windows?? If so what should I be looking into?
>
> Is there a better approach?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Keith
> ------------------------

It's not possible because Linux and Windows use different executable
file formats.

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