hi everyone.

i'm new to linux. i'm going to develop a critical software that gets data through lan and show it graphically. after searching i decided to use linux kernel + rtai to be my Real-Time linux. my language is only c++.

now to develop software i have 2 options:

1- as a windows and vs2010 programmer, i leave windows and move to a linux distribution and develop software using a good ide that i don't know well...

2- i stay in windows and use to cross-compile for linux target using some cross-compile tools...

the first option is better for me because i have many other windows-based tools that i don't want to loose them but if i have to, i'll handle it.

now my question is which one i choose? what about the performance and reliability? which one has more performance and reliability as it required for critical software? is it important to be linux- host developped or windows cross-compile?

and the way you gus propose me please tell me how and with which development tools and ide i could do that.

thank u.

Hi


I might not have fully understood what you meant.
In any way:

You cannot stay on Windows AND use Windows-tools (like e.g. Spy++) to compile programs for other OSs. I might be wrong but I would be really surprised if the Microsoft compiler would be able to cross-compile to Linux, Solaris, etc... .
You can of course stay on the Windows OS and write there your programs for Linux, but at that point I would rather switch directly to Linux... .

So, I think that you can directly throw away option #2, go to Linux, start using Eclipse or Codelite as IDE, write your programs and understand how to cross-compile on Linux to other architectures.

Concerning performance and reliability: probably, if you really have to write a performance-oriented app which at the same time has to be 500% reliable, nothing goes around using the native OS and native compiler that the app targets.

Cheers

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