[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Porting Question

[Alvin Goats]

>  > I apologize for the off topic post, but what would be a good resource 
> for learning how to port programs from one OS to another?  Thanks, 
> Dennis in Victoria

I don't think this is off topic, if software for one OS is available on
another, it makes the transition from one to the other much more
transparent: i.e. Windoze to Linux... ;)

I'd start with the GNU languages and see what ones are available on all
of the target machines. gcc has been ported to more things than you'd
believe, making it a prime candidate for the compiler. 

Next would be to examine what libraries you need and whether they exist
on the other OS platform. This is typically the windowing utilities that
interface with the graphics of the OS, like gtk+, Qt.

Alvin