Win32 data types equivalant in Linux

Question

I am trying to convert a C++ library which is using widely DWORD, CString and BYTE in the program, and now I am converting the code from C++ Win32 library to linux program . Als

Answer 1

• DWORD = uint32_t
• BYTE = uint8_t

These types are not OS specifics and were added to C++11. You need to include to get them. If you have an old compiler you could use boost/cstdint, which is header only.

Use std::string instead CString, but you will need to change some code.

With these changes your code should compile on both Windows and Linux.