Hi,

I am trying to port a application written in windows visual C++ to linux g++. Before I started this job, I was thinking everything is possible in linux than windows atleast on the developer point of view.

But, after started this job, I am quite unhappy that some of the libraries provided by msdn is not available in linux. I don't find equivalent or better than windows library . But, I am fairly confident that linux is more reliable and everything is open(though).

Some example problems I faced while porting the application are :

1) uptime - there is no system call available in linux(need to find out from /proc/uptime)

2) timesetEvent - There is no equivalent function or utility available in linux c++.

3) getUDPTable - No library available. Need to parse /proc/net/udp

4) There is a "Microsoft Developer Network" site which provides all the required library details and complete reference,documentations.

I am very much pity that there is no for linux. but, I don't lose my fire or interest on linux for all these small problems. If possible I will contribute some open source library. If you can give some help, it would be helpful for me.

When I will like linux completely is that when I started developing some application there should be a site which should give help of complete library and routines for all the languages. linux is still in progress...

Libraries provided by Microsoft, have nothing to do with Linux. Everything you've stated, has equivalents in Linux, you just haven't found them yet.

You say you're moving from "MICROSOFT VISUAL C++"....that's Microsoft's version of what they think C++ should be, not a 'standard' C++. There are hundreds of sites that have many libraries and routines, for more languages than Windows support.

as for the uptime, there is a systemcall 'sysinfo' which can get you the uptime.

Hi mr.TB0ne,

I do accept your words, in fact I am a very good fan of linux . I used to argue if someone says windows is better.

But.. I think still I am not convinced totally..

-> You are true. I did not find the answer. My problem is I am not able to find it out very easily. Incase of windows they have a single site and they have complete reference. Incase of linux there are so many sites which gives reference for different different libraries, but not all at once.

-> There are hundreds of libraries but when I did google it's confusing. No place I found the answer for the above three doubts.

For uptime I got the answer. For others I still don't have answers .
If you know some developer resource, kindly give me the urls of those sites.

On the whole what I am trying to say is that though windows has limited environment it helps the developer to use their libraries irrespective of whether they follow standard or not. Definitely it has it's own limitations.

On the linux side, it has a versatile environment and powerful, reliable, stable libraries and kernel . But the problem I see here is unavailability of those to the developers.