C++ in Palm OS???

[misirlou]

Can a C++ source developed for Windows be ported to PalmOS without moving to a new programming language? It's somewhat cheesy but I am interested in porting the Virtual TI emulator program to a Handspring so that I have access to my TI-92 calculator functions on a Handspring. The source will require tweaking for the graphics regardless, but I am curious if C++ compilers exist for PalmOS and if so what are my options?

 

[GL]

I think the Palm simply uses a custom-compiled version of gcc (for C dev) and g++ (for C++ dev). Palm's website has a link to their development kit - you can verify it there.

I think porting from Windows to the Palm would be quite difficult. If I'm not mistaken, PalmOS is a 16-bit OS so that would affect a lot of things.

-GL

 

[noninterleaved]

PalmOS doesn't support Win32 api calls... so if you are doing any real "windows programming" you are SOL as far as a direct port to PalmOS.

I read the SDK a little bit, and it seems like programming for that guy is a little strange. Seems to me that ALL of the programs are running silently in the background ( I may be wrong ) and so you have to keep an eye out, cause if they are doing something unneccesary you are gonna drain the battery bigtime. Also the "filesystem" is a little different, as it is more database oriented.