On 11/08/2017 11:58 AM, Serguei Mokhov wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote:
I know at one time that there was a proprietary (licensed for fee)
development environment that was native and portable to X11, Mac OS, and MS
Win -- that is, using this "magic" set of libraries, etc., the same source
code (ANSI C++ base as I recall) would have the same GUI interface in the
developed application on all three of these. I do not recall for which
releases this worked. (My assumption is that there must be something still
like this as many "major" web browser applications have variants for each of
these different environments.)
In a similar way, but hopefully open systems (not licensed for fee), is
there a lowest common denominator for Linux that will work on both Red Hat
and Debian based distros (e.g., SL, Fedora, etc., and Ubuntu, Mint, etc.)?
-- not necessarily the latest and greatest, but write once (preferably in
ANSI C++ current GNU production release), compile on each environment, and
run. I know that this works for various interpreters (e.g., java, python)
-- but we are looking for compiled to physical machine code if possible.
Qt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
Technically Qt, GTK, and motif all fit this need in some fashion. I
will agree that Qt probably supports the largest diversity of platforms.
Python, TCL, and a bunch of other scripting languages have Qt libraries
as well as things like TK.
