Wine C/C++ compiler

iceblue25.1 · Post by **iceblue25.1** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:28 pm

Hi,

I wanted to ask if you can suggest an open source C/C++ compiler for wine.. (To compile and get executables for wine).

Thanks,
A.

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:48 pm

Wine itself is full C due to the differences between C++ compilers and being full C allows wine to respond how C++ built applications expect. To build wine you normally use the platform gcc complier.

iceblue25.1 Number 1 wine really should not be looked at as platform to develop applications for. winelib maybe make porting simpler maybe make porting harder.

Linux Standard Base, qt( http://qt.nokia.com/ ) and other solutions should be looked it for you are wanting to build applications to run on many platforms. qt particularly.

For testing lot of cases mingw cross complier is used is used. http://www.mingw.org/

Yes a lot of time I use qt since it gives me cross platform.

Also remember MS is about ready with windows 8 to pull another Windows API reshuffle. So really not a good time to be building applications directly dependent on it.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:33 am

Linux Standard Base, qt( http://qt.nokia.com/ ) and other solutions should be looked it for you are wanting to build applications to run on many platforms. qt particularly.

I agree. Take a look at Qt. In 2008 when I started using open source
cross platform libraries (instead of developing my own) to help
display and process my medical imaging research, I decided it was time
to evaluate moving to a framework that was also cross platform. A
second motivation for this was MFC had begun to show signs of
abandonment from Microsoft. At that point I was a MFC / windows
developer for over a decade. It was a lot of work at first to move to
a new platform and at the same time develop a new application but in
the end I am very happy with the result and I wish I used Qt long ago.

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John M. Drescher