Beginning C++ 1, Setting up the Platform

Setting up the Platform

In this article I’ll be covering the prerequisites for setting up windows to be developer friendly

As you probably already know, you can build C++ programs on many, many platforms. The one I’ll be concentrating on here will be the Microsoft Windows platform (Windows XP upwards) using the Visual C++ 2008 compiler and the Boost library build environment

It’s debatable where the platform ends and the build environment begins. Traditionally the platform is a combination of the operating system and the hardware architecture. The build environment is the combination of the compiler and various libraries. The compiler and the libraries you use can have a significant effect on the nature of the language and your code. I’ll expand more on this in later articles.

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