Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[Michael Torp Kaalund <kaalund@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you are going to port a program between operation systems, then it is
better to use something like libsdl, that can be used to crosscompile.
Now I hav'nt seen the code for the programs in gEDA, but I think it will
a while to port the existing code to use something like libsdl, and it
is something that definally needs a plan to do.

But if you really like gEDA on a windows mashine, then you can try use 
Cygwin. 

Thats my 2 cents.
Hav a nice saturday..
-Michael Kaalund (Denmark)
lør, 09 05 2009 kl. 23:06 -0700, skrev Dave N6NZ:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> >> Apparently, programming for Windows is much more difficult than
> >> programming for unix.
> > 
> >    I've never seen it, but I'm told that the Windows API is actually  
> > rather nice.  I suspect it's more a matter of more highly-skilled  
> > programmers not working with Windows.  At least for the most part.
> 
> Windows is just way different.  There is no where near a 1:1 mapping of 
> functionality in API calls between Windows and *nix.  And things that 
> are efficient on one system can be awful on the other... fork() being an 
> example of something that is notoriously expensive on Windows and highly 
> tuned (usually) on *nix.  If you find one of those deeply embedded in 
> the architecture of a program, it can make porting very painful.  And 
> the Windows API specification is much more volatile.
> 
> Porting isn't easy.  And even if you decide up front to design for 
> portability among Windows, OS X, and X-windows, there is no single, 
> obvious, straight-forward strategy.
> 
> -dave
> 
> And don't ask me for more details.... I've purposely avoided Windows 
> programming (because I could) and have fallen woefully behind on Windows 
> programming methodologies.
> 
> 
> 
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