Re: OFFTOPIC: steps to port a linux app to win?

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Your best bet, other than buying a Posix subsystem for Win, is to hope 
it is written a portable, or relatively so, language: Java comes to mind 
followed by Perl and Python.

Brian Nelson wrote:

> "john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > hi,
> > what steps do I need to take in order to port a small linux app to
> > win98? any tutorials,etc I need to be aware of?
>
> That's a loaded question.  It really depends on the way the code is
> written.  What language is it written in?  If it's graphical, what
> toolkit does it use?  Does it use fork()'s?  Depending on the
> answers to these questions, it could port with little/no changes to
> the code, or it may require a complete rewrite.