14 August 2002, 15:58 | #1 |
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Next-gen Amiga development
I'm considering to start picking up development again (I was quite proficient at AmigaE, ASM and some C at the time), this time on Linux and most probably C/C++. I don't think I completely understand where Amiga is heading in the future, but is it reasonable to think that porting Linux applications to AmigaDE, OS5 or whatever's coming next wouldn't be too much of a hassle?
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02 October 2002, 12:02 | #2 |
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Depends on what application you're talking about? If you're talking about large applications involving API calls and the like, it's still a lot of hassle.
...and then there's different graphics libs... |
03 October 2002, 03:13 | #3 |
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I think its great that you are thinking about doing that LaundroMat, but I have to agree wth P-J, its not as simple as running the configure script and typing make...
You probably could port some of the CLI apps easily, but when it comes to qui apps, you'd need the X set of libaries ported to the amiga first. Whilst some ports exist, I'm not too sure how recent they are and how complete too. It would be excellent if something like cygwin existed for the amiga OS, this would make porting unix based apps across to the amiga _a lot_ easier. Maybe an effort should be started to make something like cygwin on the amiga. |
05 October 2002, 00:30 | #4 |
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A sort of 'X wrapper' for the AmigaOS GUI would be a good idea, since AmigaOS is so clean and pristine it doesn't ant to be messed up with X libraries now
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