Chapter 7: Creating the Development Environment

Introduction

This chapter describes how to create a development environment for application migration. First, it describes some of the tools and facilities that are available. Then, in the three main sections, it describes how to:

• Configure the development environment.

• Populate with source code and build structures.

• Use the development environment.

The decisions made while setting migration strategy will help to define the development environment. This environment is either native Microsoft Win32 application programming interface or Microsoft Interix.

Solutions in this chapter use the Microsoft Visual Studio development system for Win32 source editing, for builds, and for makefile-based batch builds. Solutions use Microsoft Visual SourceSafe version control software for source control. Interix solutions use the Microsoft Visual Studio for source editing, and the included Interix SDK tools for compiling, linking, and debugging ( gcc and gdb) .