Re: Looking for: 1) GCC C/C++ newbie forum 2)Classic C/C++ compiler/native code. Is GCC it?

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta dot com>]

Mel_3 writes:

> I have some programming experience... way back :) x86 ASM, Basic, VBA, ASP,
> PHP, & very little C.
>
> I've decided to start to work on learning C & C++.
>
> Question 1: Is this the forum for GCC newbie questions?

It is.

> Question 2: Does GCC C/C++ compilers compile to "native code" for deployment
> on Windows machines?

Yes.

> Question 3: Can you do full blown Windows GUI application development in
> GCC? (and then cross compile to other platforms... Apple & Linux?)

Microsoft Windows, Apple OS, and Linux, use completely different GUI  
libraries, that have very little in common with each other. The language is  
the same, of course, but the libraries and APIs are completely different.

There are some non-native libraries, such as QT, that offer some level of  
cross-platform compatibility across multiple platforms. Still, the vast  
differences between the operating systems mean that even if your application  
builds against QT on, say, Linux, you have no guarantees whatsover that you  
can simply dump your source code into a Windows box, together with the  
Windows port of QT, feed everything to gcc, and get working results.

You should focus your energies on learning C++, the language, first. That  
should take a while. And after you are comfortable with the language itself,  
then you can begin looking at platform-specific APIs, be it MS Windows,  
Apple OS, or Linux.

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