You should look into maybe using cmake or some other automated build system to handle the cross-platform compatibility. Also, are you planning on using C++11 features? (Just asking because I'm a big C++11 fan. ;) ).

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm writing it in C++.
If you want, you can follow my progress in the operations/dumps/incremental
repo, branch gsoc [1] (but there isn't almost anything there yet).
And I don't have any computers with non-x86 architecture, so I won't be
able to test that.

[1]:
https://git.wikimedia.org/log/operations%2Fdumps%2Fincremental/refs%2Fheads%2Fgsoc


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>wrote:

> At 03-07-2013 18:29, Petr Onderka wrote:
>
>> I'm primarily a Windows guy, so I'm trying to write the code in a
>> portable way and I will make sure the application works on both Linux
>> and Windows.
>>
>
> That sounds good. Just remember that portable not only means that it works
> on different operating systems on the same computer architecture, but also
> on different architectures. What programming language do you intend to use?
>
>
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