Re: [Boost-users] Recommend Unix Compiler and Unix Platform?

From: Ray Burkholder (ray_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-25 20:22:07

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> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff Dunlap
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 19:49
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [Boost-users] Recommend Unix Compiler and Unix Platform?

> 
> Although I have no experience in Unix, I am very interested 
> in doing similar web development in C++ on Unix.
> 
> Can someone recommend a good compiler and platform (Unix 
> Variant)?  I've noticed that the following seem to be pretty 
> popular for web servers.  To keep things easy, I guess that 
> I'd be using a specific variant for both development and web server:
> 
> FreeBSD, Fedora, Ubantu, and CentOS.
> 

FreeBSD is a BSD derivative.  Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS are Linux derivatives
(of which you could add Debian into the mix).  I, plus a good chunk of the
population,  have a preference to the Linux side, ISP, in general, people
have a preference for the BSD side.  I'm sure others will have other
opinions.

Anyway, in general, there are some larger OS and filesystem differences
between the two basic derivatives.

g++ is the usual gnu open source C++ compiler.  Eclipse/CDT is an IDE (I've
used that one, but Code::Blocks is rumored to be a good IDE as well).

Do a google for Wt, which is a pretty good C++ based web development kit.
And is based upon boost slots/sockets and ASIO.

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