I need to develop a Windows / Linux command line utility. The utility will interact with middleware that has a standard API on both platforms. I already did cross-platform development before on FreeBSD / Linux, which was much simpler - and I had people in the group with whom I could talk.
At the moment, there is no one in my group who has been developing Windows / Linux. I’m looking for tips on how to best configure it. I am also new to C ++, basically I developed C # /. NET GUI applications and Linux level driver. Kind of a weird mixture.
I thought it would be better to define my own data types and not use either Linux or certain Windows types - save the OS code in separate folders and enable it conditionally. This is what we have done for Linux / BSD. So it was a good start.
One of the developers here is a big Boost fan ... one more thought: TCLAPthe command line analyzer library was easier to use ... Obviously, everything should be compatible with licensing.
The code will be open source, but it is production code, so I do not want to be sloppy. What else should I do or am looking for? Are there any best practices?
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