On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, keith smith wrote:
> 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 .
sounds like the 'trading shim, about which I presented at PLUG
a while back
http://www.trading-shim.org/
> Initially I need the application to run on Windows XP or
> Vista and connect to the Linux box to access MySql.
* nod *
> 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?
sure -- use Cygwin, for the Windows side, and your favorite
Linux distribution. For extra credit, do it on OS/X as well.
We also build the doco under TeX, and emit pdf's at the end of
the process.
We have scripts which build:
Debian testing shim-debian.sh
CentOS 4 and 5 shim-builder.sh
OS/X shim-OSX.sh
Windows shim-Win.sh
all from a common tarball, at:
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/COLUG/
We talk through getting the shim going on Windows (until
blocked by immaturity in the Windows C++ environment [not
likely to be encountered, but we have sepcial needs), in the
mailing list archive at:
http://www.trading-shim.org/pipermail/ts-general/2008-May/thread.html
> Is there a better approach?
None of which I am aware.
-- Russ herrold
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