[Gllug] cross platform development (C++)

[Sean Burlington]

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looks like I'm going to be doing an MSc starting in October

the down side is that they only use MS Windows - and I only use Gnu/Linux

I'm used to programming for Linux webservers in Perl/PHP, so I've been trying 
to get a head start on my C++ - and find out about the cross platform issues 
I'm going to run into.

what I really want to do is compile one set of sources to produce executables 
for each of Windows and Linux (preferably Mac OS too)

I'd like to be able to do this for GUI stuff as well as console ...

having looked around this looks non-trivial

I'm not really clear on how to compile a Windows execuatable on a Linux host

( http://www.mingw.org/index.shtml - seems to be a starting point )

and GUI stuff seems even trickier

Qt is nice but the Windows/Mac license isn't (and it looks like you have to do 
the compile on the right platform anyway)

GTK seems ugly, C based and again I'm not sure if I have to use Win host for 
Win output (but it is Gnu)

Mozilla XUL looks interesting (it *looks* like it can be used for creating 
UI's for random applications) but it's new and lacking in documentation.

advice anyone...

- -- 

Sean
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