Mel_3 writes:
I have some programming experience... way back :) x86 ASM, Basic, VBA, ASP, PHP, & very little C. I've decided to start to work on learning C & C++. Question 1: Is this the forum for GCC newbie questions?
It is.
Question 2: Does GCC C/C++ compilers compile to "native code" for deployment on Windows machines?
Yes.
Question 3: Can you do full blown Windows GUI application development in GCC? (and then cross compile to other platforms... Apple & Linux?)
Microsoft Windows, Apple OS, and Linux, use completely different GUI libraries, that have very little in common with each other. The language is the same, of course, but the libraries and APIs are completely different.
There are some non-native libraries, such as QT, that offer some level of cross-platform compatibility across multiple platforms. Still, the vast differences between the operating systems mean that even if your application builds against QT on, say, Linux, you have no guarantees whatsover that you can simply dump your source code into a Windows box, together with the Windows port of QT, feed everything to gcc, and get working results.
You should focus your energies on learning C++, the language, first. That should take a while. And after you are comfortable with the language itself, then you can begin looking at platform-specific APIs, be it MS Windows, Apple OS, or Linux.
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