Seeking Operating System abstraction Layer

Baron Samedi · 2008-01-22T09:52:57+00:00

hi, I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easilylet me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It shouldpreferably be free, or at least cheap.After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it toit is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to beabandoned (even email is bouncing) .Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Evenif it handles 2 out of 3, I suppose I could port the other.Any pointers to websites, books, etc. gratefully received.,Thanks in advance for any help.

Jan 22, 2008 22 Replies

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Maxim S. Shatskih 17 years ago

Supported.

Also there is Microsoft Interix - a free download from MS IIRC, which is = the same as Cygwin and probably better.

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Jeffrey Creem 17 years ago

Not attempting to start a language battle but Ada is available for all of those platforms and can provide the functions you are looking for.

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Spam 17 years ago

same as Cygwin and probably better.

If I read the question correctly, the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) comes pretty close to a portable OS abstraction layer, and offers file/directory access, mutex primitives, TCP/IP sockets abstraction, and various other facilities ... Its license is permissive (not GPL), and it is in daily use on millions of platforms support for Unix, Linux, Windoze and others ...

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HTH, Rob Sciuk

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