RE: [GD-General] dev environments

[Patrick M D. <pa...@wa...>]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Brian Hook wrote:

> So porting between the two should be trivial, given code that is reasonably
> portable to begin with.  If you're hardcoding calls to Win32 or DSound,
> well, yeah, you're asking for trouble.

For the most part, the code can be factored around such calls or even a
wrapper around the Mac OS can be built.  The biggest offender I've seen is
DirectPlay.  While some innovate hackers have built a compatible
implementation of DirectPlay, it doesn't take much effort from Microsoft
to break that work.

If you care about portability, implement TCP/IP support using WinSock.

Patrick