Re: Compatible codes for both Visual Studio 2005 and gcc
* Alexander Dong Back Kim:
I'm doing an experimental thing that the codes I wrote can be compiled
by both VS2005 and gcc. I saw somewhere on the web that I can use
compiler's pre-defined value something life "_cplusplus_" or
"_win32_". My question is is there any way that I can make codes that
can be compiled by the both beautiful compilers? Any comments or
suggestions would be much appreciated.
Both compilers accept most of standard C++.
In addition g++ and other Windows C++ compilers accept many Visual C++
language extensions, and provide headers for most of the core Windows API.
In practice there should therefore be no problem for beginner's
programs. You can however run into problems if you try to use
system-specific libraries that a particular compiler doesn't provide.
E.g., AFAIK current MingW g++ doesn't provide an interface to Windows'
GDI+ API, so if you try to use GDI+, you'll have to create some wrapper
of your own -- but that's a Windows programming question, not C++.
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
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