[Qt-interest] cross platform

[Farid Derradji]

> Can you probably suggest literature which points exactly to what i
> need at the moment except the gcc manual which i have already? is
> there a standard literature about cross-platform development? issues,
> which coding style is best/worst..

Hello Raffael,

I regret but I don't know any literature which explicitly addresses that
problem; generally, it would be a good idea to use any wide-spread C++
libraries like for example boost, Qt etc. to avoid a platform-specific trap.

Also, whenever you encounter a platform dependency you should either
encapsulate it in its own sub project or look at the on line help of the
above mentioned class libraries to check whether they provide any solution.

Some other platform dependencies are for example:
* multi-threading
* inter process communication
* file systems (for example because of different naming conventions)
* GUI
* different encodings (on Windows ANSI, on UNIX or Linux ASCII etc.)


Regards
Farid