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



On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:26:56AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| 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.

That's only part of it.  You can write non-portable code in any of
those languages.  Particularly if the code assumes certains files
exist or if they make use of external commands.  Even things like
endian-ness can be relevent when writing java code.

-D



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