Seeking Operating System abstraction Layer

hi,

  I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
preferably be free, or at least cheap.

After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it to
it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to be
abandoned (even email is bouncing) .

Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Even
if 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.

Why not use a high level programming language with ports to all those 
platforms, such as Java? There's sure to be a language somewhere that 
will do what you want.

If you want it for a specific language (C, etc) you'll have to tell us 
what language, and what sort of libraries you want to use.

Jack

Baron Samedi wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
> let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
> preferably be free, or at least cheap.
> 
> After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it to
> it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to be
> abandoned (even email is bouncing) .
> 
> Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Even
> if 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.

Baron Samedi wrote:
> 
> I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will
> easily let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It
> should preferably be free, or at least cheap.
> 
> After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near
> it to it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems
> to be abandoned (even email is bouncing) .
> 
> Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so?
> Even if it handles 2 out of 3, I suppose I could port the other.

Try just programming in ISO standard C.  Some useful references
about C:

 <http://c-faq.com/>                                       (C-faq)
 <http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html>   (comp.lang.c)
 <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf> (C99)
 <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/n869_txt.bz2> (C99, txt)
 <http://www.dinkumware.com/refxc.html>                (C-library}

The text version of N869 is the standard compressed by bzip2.  You
can discuss the language on comp.lang.c.

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In article <60bddd6e-3e04-4632-b37f-06687f8f38c5@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, 
Papa.Legba.666@gmail.com says...
> hi,
> 
>   I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
> let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
> preferably be free, or at least cheap.
> 
> After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it to
> it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to be
> abandoned (even email is bouncing) .
> 
> Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Even
> if 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.


I think POSIX compliance is along the lines of what you're looking for.

--Gene

"Jack Scott" <jack@jackscott.org> wrote in message
news:MMslj.5978$421.3587@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>  [snipped Jack...]
> Baron Samedi wrote:
> >   I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
> > let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
> > preferably be free, or at least cheap.
> >

Have you looked at Simple DirectMedia Layer?
http://www.libsdl.org/

SDL allows you to write your applications once.  It supports Linux, Windows,
and many other unix and unix-like OSes (BSD, IRIX, Solaris, QNX).  But, I
don't see VxWorks listed...  It was inteded for multimedia, but you can even
write applications that approach OSes in complexity for it.  MAME, DOSBOX,
and ScummVM have been ported to it.

Wikipedia's description of SDL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer


Rod Pemberton

...because for some reason I read this as

"seeking an Operating System Abstraction LAWYER".

Sean_Q_

On Jan 22, 10:52=A0am, Baron Samedi <Papa.Legba....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> =A0 I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
> let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
> preferably be free, or at least cheap.
>
> After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it to
> it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to be
> abandoned (even email is bouncing) .
>
> Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Even
> if 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.

Look out for "Apache Portable Runtime" (apr) which is developed by the
Apache Web Server guys, and offers a very nice interface over most
common needs.

Bruno

Baron Samedi wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I am seeking an Operating System Abstraction Layer which will easily
> let me port my code to Windows, Linux and VxWorks. It should
> preferably be free, or at least cheap.
> 
> After lots of goggling, the only thing that looks anywhere near it to
> it is the old NASA OSAL, but that is incomplete and seems to be
> abandoned (even email is bouncing) .
> 
> Does anyone know of anything which fits the bill, or nearly so? Even
> if 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.

This depends entirely on the sort of OS services you want to use, and 
the sort of system you are talking about.  If you want to use a gui, 
look at something like wxWidgets, or SDL.  If your system is big enough, 
look at a high-level language such as Python.  If you are doing C++ 
programming, consider the boost libraries.  If you are doing unix-style 
development, look at posix (windows is partly posix compliant, and can 
be made more so with cygwin).

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