How to create a cross platform project

[ColdDoT]

Hey all,

I'm developing a server in Visual Studio 2005, now i want it realy bad to have it also run on linux (Debian to be specifick)

The server is command line so thats good i gues
But i cant find anything on google, i gues i'm looking at it in the wrong way
But can some 1 help me a bit.

Howto make a cross platform project for linux/windows

+ColdDoT

[devnull3d]

Simple, just use Perl

[ColdDoT]

Haha no cant do, C++ is powerfull, and the project is already written in C++, AND i do not use perl so much and C++ i do

[devnull3d]

Porting even a simple socket application to work on both linux and windows that just sends bunch of data to some port requires lots of #ifdef's and writing the same functions twice just so they'd work on both OS, you could only imagine how much effort would it take to make a whole project that would work on both OSs let alone others. Basically writing the whole code twice, unless you make a genius plan to isolate segments of code that should work on both OS
But what about OS specific functions? What if you can't find an alternative function, I wouldn't get my hands on such project.

[ColdDoT]

haha thx for your help