> It's the > same reason (presumably) all of us develop in MS VC, instead of using > cross-platform C++ compilers - we sacrifice the cross-platformness in > order to use the cool features in Windows (or not, lol).
I don't agree. Any C++ compiler ported to Win32 is able to target the Win32 API directly, so anything you can do in MSVC can be done in mingw (for example) just as well (except for the compiler specific extensions, like __blahblahblah.) I personally use MSVC just because its IDE is more convenient for me. :-) On some small size projects where I had to develop for both Win32 and Linux (console stuff only!) I have used gcc on both platforms. I've found out that if the Windows side is done using gcc, there's a better chance that the Linux side gets compiled more painlessly. BTW if anyone's up to do such a thing, I seriously recommend Bloodshed Dev-C++. But presumably soon I won't be able to comment on such stuff a lot, because on and on I'm finding myself writing more PHP code than C++! I have a nightmare every night that I type a $ in front of every variable name when writing C++. ;-) ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] Man is something that must be overcome: and therefore you will love your virtues,- for you will perish by them.- -Thus Spoke Zarathustra, F. W. Nietzsche
