Porting from Linux to windows

[Lakshmyb]

Hi,

Currently I am trying to port my application from Linux to windows.
I need some inputs on the following:

1. how easily the sockets can be ported from Linux to Windows
2. whether I have any windows equivalent for gcov, valgrind, xterm etc
3. how easily the shell scripts can be ported to Windows

Please help.

Regards,
Lakshmy

[Banfa]

1. Probably the easiest of the three, WinSock is supposedly a Berkley Sockets implementation although my understanding is that it is not perfect.
2. Hard for me to say, I know windows has no standard xterm implementation although I think there are 3rd party implementations . I am not familiar with the others.
3. Not well onto the default Windows shell. But there are readily available alternatives like Windows Power Shell or cygwin (which then gives you a bash shell).

[Laharl]

It is possible to have an X implementation with cygwin, but, frankly, it's a buggy mess. You can get gcov because there are gcc ports to windows (install it in a cygwin environment, for example).

[Lakshmyb]

I want to know if there is any impact on performance if I use cygwin.

I am planning to use cygwin libraries for porting from Linux to Windows. I guess Cygwin support pthreads on windows.

Has anyone tried this? Is there any performance tradeoff if I do this?

Regards,
Lakshmyb