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How to port cli c++ program with GNU libraries from windows to Linux
I need to implement some graph partitioning algorithms for my thesis. I have mostly Windows experience. I would like to know if it is hard to migrate c++ cli program to Linux. I want to program it on ...
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Guides for developing general-purpose .Net libraries? [closed]
I'm thinking of small general-purpose libraries that depend mostly on the core .Net assemblies, and are totally decoupled from the most specific device dependencies (UI, services). One would expect ...
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Client-side technology stack optimized for durability [closed]
So what's a developer to do when he wants to start a complex long-term project (say 30 years) which is mostly client-side GUI with some logic thrown in and doesn't want to rewrite it every year or ...
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Does the windows 8 store only support windows RT?
I'm in a project for creating a game engine and eventually a game, and we need ideas on how to get our game out into the internet.
I had an idea with putting it onto the windows 8 store at a low ...
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Can Win32 message loops survive being ported to native linux?
I would like to port a large Win32 DLL to native linux in C++. I don't think I can use Wine for a DLL like mine, because users of the DLL would then also have to be in Wine, and then they would all ...
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Can WinRT really be used at just the boundaries?
Microsoft (chiefly, Herb Sutter) recommends when using WinRT with C++/CX to keep WinRT at the boundaries of the application and keep the core of the application written in standard ISO C++.
I've ...
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What are the main bottlenecks to know about Java portability?
Java is known to be portable; "compile once, run anywhere". I know this is often true because I have many times deployed jar or war without any cross-platform troubles. Still, I am left wondering if ...
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Difference between Portable version and original of an application, [closed]
Many applications launch their portable versions. I have noticed that many features are not present in the portable version as compared to the original one. It might be obvious as to make it portable ...
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Any good reason to open files in text mode?
(Almost-)POSIX-compliant operating systems and Windows are known to distinguish between 'binary mode' and 'text mode' file I/O. While the former mode doesn't transform any data between the actual file ...
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Why is Java considered more portable than other languages like C++?
What differs between "writing a specific JRE for each platform" for Java developers and "writing a C++ compiler for each platform" for C++ ones?
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Portable programming style
I'm a Python programmer that prefers to develop on Windows but still end up deploying to a Linux server.
I've just finished writing a little script: stuff that downloads files from a site, generates ...
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Parallel programming library? (+ some features)
Note: this is a reposting as the question has been considered non-suitable for the Stack Overflow forum and should have been posted here. The original topic is there.
I'd like to talk of ...
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I am learning Java and thinking about how and when to learn Android?
I am learning Java and I was wondering about when it would be best for me to try to develop something for Android? I have two specific concerns.
1.How is the Android API different from the main Java ...
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Future-proofing myself when learning to program
I want to learn to program in a 'future-proof' manner, if you like. Whilst Windows dominates the desktop OS marketplace (for now), obviously there is a lot of value in learning its ...
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Will real world applications ever need a 128-bit flat address space?
This is a bit "one megabyte should be enough for anyone", but...
A 64-bit flat address space allows up to 4.3ish billion times more space than a 32-bit address space. That's 17,179,869,184 GiB.
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Educational, well-written FOSS projects to read, study or discuss
Before you say it: yes, this "question" has been asked other times. However, I could not fine many of such questions and not that easily, and those I found had similar results. What I'm trying to say ...
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What did Linus Torvalds mean by his quotation about portability?
In a debate with Andrew Tanenbaum over microkernel vs. monolithic operating system architecture, Linus Torvalds said,
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
What did he mean by ...
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Best way to save application settings
In Windows the default way is registry. This allow you to differentiate system-wide and per-user settings.
In Unix you should use text files in the /etc folder for system-wide settings (what's the ...
