Re: [Abios-rtool-software-dev] Discussion of tools to use for ABRT software.

[Mike K. <fr...@sb...>]

I was thinking we could stick to gcc on both Unix and
Win32 systems. I really like the mingw package and it
seems to work well. Parport IO should be reasonabally
easy with something like Userport or GiveIO to open up
the IO ports on NT version. I'm not quite sure, but
from what I remember, its pretty easy to use the
parport in Linux as well, though I don't remember if
you have to be root to access the ports.


--- Jack Gassett <jac...@ya...> wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m sending this message out hopefully to start a
> discussion on what tools
> to use to create the client software for the
> Affordable Bios Restoration
> Tool project. 
> 
>  
> 
> The requirements that I would like to fulfill are
> the following:
> 
> *	Support for Linux and Windows.
> *	Easy installation, one unified installer would be
> nice. At the very
> list the required libs/toolkits should be minimal
> and easy to install.
> *	GUI (can be at a later stage).
> 
>  
> 
> Here are some possible approaches to accomplish
> this:
> 
> *	Java/CommAPI/Swing. This should work for Windows
> and Linux and is
> fairly easy to install. I’ve never written a gui in
> Java though.
> *	gcc, using cygwin in Windows. After talking with
> Mike he wanted to
> stay away from cygwin and wanted to use fltk as the
> gui. I like fltk and
> would like to stay away from cygwin if possible. I’m
> not sure what Mike had
> in mind to do that but my next bullet is a guess on
> what he was thinking.
> *	gcc/Visual C++ using ifdef statements for the
> differences between
> the linux and windows versions.
> 
>  
> 
> Any other ideas or clarifications on how to do this?
> Any other requirements
> that we should include up front?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Jack.
> 
> 
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