Building and Organising a Multi-Platform Development Code Base

Explore cross-platform and multi-platform development challenges in this ACCU 2021 conference talk. Learn techniques for organizing and building code across different operating systems, GUIs, processor architectures, and toolchains. Discover common approaches, build tools, and potential pitfalls in system introspection. Engage in an interactive session to share experiences, tools, and techniques for improving code portability across various platforms. Gain insights from the speaker's extensive background in C and C++ programming across diverse environments, from JVM internals to air traffic control.

Introduction
Getting dns
Crossplatform development
Practice
Large source files
System introspection
Larry Wall
Verity Stop
Is introspection harmful
Windows build
Common crossplatform practices
Bringing order
Targets and build variants
Build variants
Variants
Autocomp
Internal APIs
Platforms
Platform Differences
Shared Code
Target Attributes
Build System
Example