What is your preferred OS for cross-platform development?

Mill J · 06-02-2018, 10:19 PM

Hello everyone.

I'm curious what your preferred OS is for cross-platform development. Obviously you'll have to build and test the software on all the platforms you support(ok some exceptions) but which is your "main" dev machine.

I'll start it off by saying Linux...

Thanks

Mill J

Lidoptics · 06-03-2018, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Mill J

Hello everyone.

I'm curious what your preferred OS is for cross-platform development. Obviously you'll have to build and test the software on all the platforms you support(ok some exceptions) but which is your "main" dev machine.

I'll start it off by saying Linux...

Thanks

Mill J

I selected "I don't care", mostly because I dont know and was curious what the poll said.

Mill J, why Linux? I am soon planning to get linux myself (for the first time), and have personally heard mixed answers. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Edit: I really like this

"Don't complain about Linux... do something about it!, It will only be as good as you make it!"

Mill J · 06-03-2018, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Lidoptics

I selected "I don't care", mostly because I dont know and was curious what the poll said.

Mill J, why Linux? I am soon planning to get linux myself (for the first time), and have personally heard mixed answers. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Almost Everything under Windows and Mac are geared towards the company's HUGE IDEs, Visual Studio on Windows and XCode on Mac. These are way overkill for me. My set up on all three platforms is C++, GCC, wxWidgets, and the Geany IDE.

Another reason. Custom libraries for testing, etc, are much easier to handle under Linux.

If you ever get used to the seemingly magic

Code:

./configure 
make 
make install

Then build something under Windows... Sure you can set it up to where you can use ./configure but it's not as handy.

Quote:

Edit: I really like this
"Don't complain about Linux... do something about it!, It will only be as good as you make it!"

Thanks

That is definitely the way I feel about Linux. Especially after building LFS...

Lidoptics · 06-03-2018, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mill J

Almost Everything under Windows and Mac are geared towards the company's HUGE IDEs, Visual Studio on Windows and XCode on Mac. These are way overkill for me. My set up on all three platforms is C++, GCC, wxWidgets, and the Geany IDE.

Another reason. Custom libraries for testing, etc, are much easier to handle under Linux.

If you ever get used to the seemingly magic

Code:

./configure 
make 
make install

Then build something under Windows... Sure you can set it up to where you can use ./configure but it's not as handy.

Thanks

That is definitely the way I feel about Linux. Especially after building LFS...

I just finished reading "Linux is not Windows" from your signature. Very informative stuff. I'll continue to soak up all the information I can.

Thanks for your help Mill J