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Started by johnnyBravo August 05, 2004 08:43 PM

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johnnyBravo

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August 05, 2004 08:43 PM

Hi, i'm just wondering what operating systems c++ is capable of running on? Thanks

Chris Hare

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August 05, 2004 08:46 PM

Any environment compatable with the one used for development.

Alvarny

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August 05, 2004 08:46 PM

Well any operating system where theres a c++ complier which would be practically every one.

Palidine

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August 05, 2004 08:46 PM

any system in the universe that has a C++ compiler written for it. C++ is a language, languages can run on any platform as they are just an interface between human-readible code and machine-readible code. a compiler+linker translates the C++ language into machine-readible code.

-me

C-Junkie

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August 05, 2004 08:47 PM

Quote:Original post by johnnyBravo
Hi, i'm just wondering what operating systems c++ is capable of running on?

Simple answer (and I'm serious)

Anybody who has to ask this question, has never heard of one that it won't "run" on.

Ademan555

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August 05, 2004 08:48 PM

Anything!! c++ is platform independant, as long as there are development tools and libraries for that platform
thats my understanding of if
hope that helps
-Dan

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johnnyBravo

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August 05, 2004 08:51 PM

So if i wrote a c++ program using non specific platform libraries in windows, could i use that on mac?

Extrarius

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August 05, 2004 08:52 PM

If the platform can compute, C++ can run on it. It might take quite a bit of work to get your program working on it though (I'm guessing that you'd need to write your own compiler for quantum machines or something, and I'm guessing it probably wouldn't be easy).

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