We are working on a new benchmark tool called SizingLabs, This is my last year as a Mct Student and to pass this year i need to work 4 months with 8 other students non stop on this project. I am responsible for creating a tool for a unix system that collects system (performance) information and send that information to a server socket.

I am a mere beginner in creating tools in c++.( I am familiar with Visual basic.net(server-client ,wmi..) Asp.net Java(server-client chess game) and JSP(forum)).

My question is can i use Visual C++ to create an unix tool, and if i can what kind of project should i best choose, if i cant what code developer tool should i use then.

thnx for your time

for those who can read Dutch here you have an explanation of our project SizingLabs

Visual C++ is a micro$oft product, it wont run on unix unless you do lots of crazy porting of your own, but there is a tool called Qt with many classes available for you to use from sockets to graphics ...

thnx for the info just what i needed, and so fast reply in less than 5 mins

question, are there maybe other developer tools than qt for unix systems ? because i cant seem to get the open source version of qt installend on XP (when i do configure -platform it keeps asking me to do that again)

Interesting!

I just thought MS VC++ would never run on any of the unix/linux flavours

Really!

Quite surprising!!!

Cool down that was just a joke!

There is some confusion here. Qt needs to run under xterm on Linux. Why? Because you have to make UNIX system calls, not Windows API calls. You cannot compile against libraries that do not exist.

You can install Cygwin on your PC and work in that UNIX environment.
g++ (C++ compiler and libraries from GNU)is available for almost every UNIX platform.
So you could port your code from Linux to Solaris, for example.

I think there is a Qt environment for windows, but I don't see how you could do anything for UNIX in it, like test.