developerWorks: Migrating Win32 C/C++ Applications to Linux on POWER, Part 1

“There are many ways to port and migrate from the Win32 C/C++
applications to the pSeries platform. You can use freeware or 3rd
party tools to port the Win32 application code to move to Linux. In
our scenario, we decided to use a portability layer to abstract the
system APIs call. A portability layer will offer our application
the following benefits:

• “Independence from the hardware
  • “Independence from the operating system
  • “Independence from changes introduced from release to release
    on operating systems
• “Independence from operating system API styles and error
  codes
• “Ability to uniformly place performance and RAS hooks on calls
  to the OS

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