Re: windows programming with g++

[Vijay Patil]

If you are looking for some cross platform library,
go for QT, its free ad easy to use. You can create
really cool applications with latest style GUI. 

regards,
Vijay

--- Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de> wrote:
> cppaddict wrote:
> > I come from a UNIX background, and have written
> lots of console apps
> > using g++.  I'm comfortable with using a text
> editor, makefiles, and a
> > command line compiler.  Is there any way to write
> windows programs
> > this way?
> 
> mingw32 is a program-suite containing the GCC, make,
> a shell and some more
> stuff for creating native win32 executables. I'd
> take a look at that.
> There's also devc++ which is an IDE.
> 
> > I just tried compiling a sample windows
> programming using g++, but I
> > got an error saying it could not find the header
> file "afxwin.h",
> > which I assume is a windows-specific library file
> that obvioulsy
> > wouldn't come with g++.  
> 
> Nope, it's a header of a library, namely the MFC(MS
> Foundation Classes)
> IIRC. It's shipped with Visual C++ and widely used
> in the win32 world.
> 
> > Perhaps there's a way to get all the necessary
> windows library files and
> > put them where g++ can find them? Or am I walking
> down the wrong path?
> 
> MFC are a thin&ugly wrapper around the native win32
> C-API which you don't
> want to use (I do use it but I don't like it at
> all). Furthermore they are
> not free or 'part of the system', even though they
> are widely used. Even
> then, you could not use them due to compiler
> incompatibilities but would
> need the sources...
> 
> > Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
> 
> wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows), GTK,
> paragui, are alternative
> windowing libs (and all are cross platform!) that
> come to mind.
> 
> Uli
> 
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Thanks and Regards
Vijay


        
                
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