Cross-Platform Development in C++: Building Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows Applications 1st Edition

So, there is this tendency to want to be able to program once, run everywhere, (ever heard that before?). Well, if your using C++ that seems to be a little more complicated than I was anticipating, but at the same time some people have gone through extra ordinary effort, to put a lot of the pieces in place already. wxWidgets, QT, and a few others are listed in the book. But it also brings into light some other issues that you NEED to know about to make sure you don't build something that runs on some hardware, but not on other hardware, even if it is running on the same operating system. And it gets even more involved when you add in additional operating systems as well. And when you do that, there is the massive deployment task in front of you...It is a good read, but doing it, and acheiving it will be difficult. But I love a good challange, and I have a need to make some programs that can run on multiple operation systems, that should not be run from a browser. (Although browser apps are also one of the ideas proposed in the book.)Cheers!

The basic information in this book is good. However, most of the software development tools it recommends are outdated.

To be honest this one of the few technical computer books I've read from cover to cover. I usually just use them for reference. On the subject of cross platform development this is currently the best and most up-to-date however there were a few areas I would have liked to seen covered better most notably the build environment and makes. Mr Logan does touch on these subjects but they are not given as much focus as I would have like to have seen which is why I'm taking one star away. With that said if I was asked to recommend a book on cross-platform development it would be Syd Logan's, hands down..

i like it

This was a good book to reference and augment your C++ portability skills. I have been porting code for years and found a few nuggets in this book I did not have to find out through trial by fire.As a previous reviewer mentioned, it does not cover Java or C#/Mono, which by the name of the title makes sense. Java and C#/Mono are good tools, but if you need to be where the metal meets the meat and need the squeeze out all your MIPS you can, you'll have to move down the language hierarchy to C++ and assembly.By setting up a nice abstract layer and firewalling you system calls and platform dependencies, you can usually build quite large sustainable C++ cross platform frameworks on many systems without the need for a VM level language.