Cross Platform considerations
BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax Beginners Area/Cross Platform considerations
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| Just wondering if there are a common grouping of concerns that should be kept in mind when designing a cross platform program. I know endianness is an issue, but does BMax automatically take care of that issue when you recompile your program on a different platform. I'm assuming it does - so if I save a bank it'll be saved in little-endian on my PC and if I compiled a mac version it'd save it big-endian. Not sure, though. The only other thing I know about for sure is to use forward slashes when specifying a file path. What are some other key issues to keep in mind? I'd like to take a pre-emptive strike so that the process is as painless as possible. |
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| Not much to say.... except that poor sound support, using built-in libraries is fine. |
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| http://www.blitzwiki.org/index.php/Cross_Platform_Issues |
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| On Windows, both backslash (\) and forward slash (/) can be used interchangeably to denote directory structure. However, on Mac and Linux, only a forward slash is accepted by the filesystem as a valid directory separator. Therefore you should always use forward slashes (/) in paths. Actually, BlitzMax automatically formats paths to use only forward slashes. |
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