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19.2 Windows and UNIX Portability

When writing samples and prototype code and even production applications, keep in mind that different UNIX implementations and Windows 95/NT have different APIs, provide different system services, and can even provide substantially different development environments (such as contents of include files, location of libraries, etc.). Here are a few things to look out for when writing a program under UNIX with the intent to port to Windows or other UNIX operating systems:

A more in-depth list of portability considerations is available in the file Portability.txt in the GLUT source code distribution. GLUT is described in more detail in Appendix B.


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2001-01-10