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[Ryan Roberts]

Gcc does a good enough job, though it is damn slow when churning though tmeplate heavy C++. You should think about using a portability layer of some sort.. does the project require a user interface? If not then you should be able to get away with boost for a nice portable set of libraries for IO / threading etc. Ryan

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[Maximilien]

As far as i know, there is only one compiler for linux, gcc/g++, and can also be used on Sun machines, maybe not installed by default, but it should work. for the rest google returned this page ( of many others ) : IDE/Editors[^]

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[L_u_r_k_e_r]

gcc/g++ or VisualAge C++ http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/vacpp/ Last time I wrote for unix I did most of my development on a windows box using Visual Studio and ftp'd the files to the unix box and compiled with g++. It was all a non gui backend processing app so I just stayed with standard C++, templates and all that jazz. No issues at all.

[Cedric Moonen]

In addition to tht other answers, if you need to do a program with a Graphical User Interface, you can have a look at wxWidgets[^]. It is quite similar to the MFC and is cross-platform.

[Phil Harding]

Thanks for that, did you use an STL or boost?, if STL which one? Phil Harding.
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[toxcct]

Phil Harding wrote:

did you use an STL or boost?

STL forever...

Phil Harding wrote:

if STL which one?

hm, how to know that ?

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[Ryan Roberts]

If its a database application. A nice portable C++ DB layer is DTL[^]. ORM via templates, very sweet. Ryan

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[L_u_r_k_e_r]

I used STL. Just trying to remember which one... I think it was STLPort. http://www.stlport.org/

[Brigg Thorp]

I just download Sun Studio 11[^] from Sun's web site. It handles C, C++, and believe it or not...Fortran. It's now free as well. I haven't had time to install it yet. Oh...supported Unix/Linux versions are Solaris 8, 9, and 10, SuSE ES 9, and Red Hat ES 4. Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Try Dev-C++[^]. "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math

[Phil Harding]

Ryan Roberts wrote:

A nice portable C++ DB layer is DTL[^].

Thanks Ryan, that looks pretty cool Phil Harding.
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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

I used DTL in one project and have mixed feelings about it. Just too many compiler warnings :suss:

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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

For Unix/Linux develoment, I simply use gvim and g++, although some people recommend Code::Blocks[^] as well.

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[Ryan Roberts]

Yeah, I had some nasty concurrency problems in an early version, SQL being executed out of order when using a supposedly thread safe object. Still I've never found anything comparable for C++, and it is a big timesaver, as well as enabling some elegant DB code. Ryan

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[Alvaro Mendez]

Phil Harding wrote:

for a C++ compiler/Dev env that will work on Unix (Sun) and/or Linux (Mepis)?

Well since no one's said it yet, how about Java! :):rolleyes:

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[Jeremy Falcon]

Free and great to use... http://www.kdevelop.org/[^] Jeremy Falcon

[John Fisher]

I've never had to do a cross-platform job, but if I did, I'd check to see if MainSoft[^] was had the tools I needed. John
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[Douglas Troy]

I realize you've had many answers to your question, so I thought I'd throw my 'hat' into the ring. I did a small crossplatform program that was used on Windows and Linux (Mandrake). I downloaded Dev C++[^], installed several different frameworks, and ended up using wxWidgets[^] (formally wxWindows). In less than an hour, I had the entire IDE, compiler and framework installed, a small test application developed and ported between the two systems. If I had to do this again, I would go exactly that same route.

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[Daniel Turini]

I know, you asked for C++, but since someone already suggested Java... From the Churchdown Parish Magazine: "Would the Congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church, labelled 'For The Sick,' is for monetary donations only."

[Phil Harding]

Thanks for all the great answers everybody :) Phil Harding.
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