How to write portable code in c++?

Question

What are the things that I should keep in mind to write portable code? Since I\'m a c++ beginner, I want to practice it since beginning.

Thanks.

Answer 1

a good idea is to use POSIX system calls. that way you don't have to deal with different ways of creating threads or using mutexes and signals.

the problem is that Windows is not exactly POSIX compliant, but there are libraries that implement certain POSIX features, like this one: [1]: http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/