Hi All,

I have one  big system application, which is developed for HPUX and
Windows in C-language. I need to port it to Linux.
What all things do I need to consider to do this. Can you please
provide any information or any links to websites? I have searched
google, I couldn't find much information on this.

Thanks for the help,

ragards,
raghavendra.

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In comp.lang.c, Raghavendra wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have one  big system application, which is developed for HPUX and
> Windows in C-language. I need to port it to Linux.
> What all things do I need to consider to do this. Can you please
> provide any information or any links to websites? I have searched
> google, I couldn't find much information on this.

If you wrote it in C, just recompile on the new platform. Job done. C is
platform-independent.

If you used extensions to the language, then porting those will involve
finding out which extensions were used, and whether a local equivalent
exists on the new platform, and then rewriting as appropriate. Such
extensions are off-topic in comp.lang.c, however.

To avoid porting headaches in future: if you must use platform extensions,
at least try to isolate their use into separate modules, so that only those
modules need be replaced when you move from one platform to another.

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raghavendra.dhayapule@wipro.com (Raghavendra) wrote:
# Hi All,
#
# I have one  big system application, which is developed for HPUX and
# Windows in C-language. I need to port it to Linux.
# What all things do I need to consider to do this. Can you please
# provide any information or any links to websites? I have searched
# google, I couldn't find much information on this.

Give me the contract for the port, and you won't have to worry about
it anymore.

--
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Haven't you ever heard the customer is always right?

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Raghavendra wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have one  big system application, which is developed for HPUX and
> Windows in C-language. I need to port it to Linux.
> What all things do I need to consider to do this. Can you please
> provide any information or any links to websites? I have searched
> google, I couldn't find much information on this.

Just try to compile it on Linux exactly the way you
would have done on HPUX. There might be a few problems
you need to solve before it will work, but exactly
how many and which depends on your application.

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Richard Heathfield wrote:
> In comp.lang.c, Raghavendra wrote:
> 
>
> If you wrote it in C, just recompile on the new platform. Job done. C is
> platform-independent.

Bwahahahahahaha!

:-)

Duke

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