c++ for mac?

[cody]

I am running the most recent version of snow leopard, I am wondering does coding c++ work the same? Will my c++ files work on pc and mac?

Also when using python I use wxpthon for a gui, is their a gui I can use for programming c++ on a mac? And what program/compiler do you guys recommend?

I am new to mac's sp all information is appreciated.

[TrigZu]

C++ syntax is always the same, but on different platforms you do different things to get the end result. Some stuff is cross-platform compatible, but chances are anything you wrote isn't. Anything that used the Windows OS won't work on your Mac.

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I might be wrong about some of that. Feel free to correct me anyone.

[aLiNuSh]

Yeah, the language stays the same on every platform, the code changes. For instance, with text files Windows uses CRLF for newline termination whereas UNIX uses LF from what I remember. So when you write stuff out to a text file in a program meant to run on a Mac you wanna make sure you use the right newline termination characters.

C++ GUI code written for Windows using the Win32 can pretty much be thrown away if you want to port your program to a Mac. You're going to have to write everything from scratch.

There are nice frameworks like Qt, as TrigZu said, that allow you to write cross-platform GUI code that will compile on every platform without having to change a single statement (if you write it properly).