I would like to know can the same code developed in Windows can be used in Ubuntu?

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I would like to know i am developing a 'C' codes in Windows operating system. If i take the code and run it in Ubuntu will it work. What are all the areas that has to be modified to make it work.

Posted 18-Aug-15 20:29pm

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Patrice T 19-Aug-15 2:39am

Did you try to Google ?

Tomas Takac 19-Aug-15 2:39am

Depends on the code. If you are only using standard libraries then I don't see why it shouldn't work. Maybe you will need to do some changes, depends on the compiler.

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-18T20:50:00

C source code, by itself is portable, i.e. you may compile the same source code both on Windows and on Linux (Ubuntu is Linux) and obtain a program showing the same behviour.
However, as you interact with OS API calls (and all but trivial programs do it) the portability is broken, because, for instance Windows provides a Sleep call while Linux does not. So most of C non-trivial programs are non portable.
If you aim to portability, however, there are workarounds: have a look, for instance, at Cygwin[^].
If you aren't stuck with C, then you may consider the 'write once run everywhere' solution (that is Java[^]) or C# (available on Linux via Mono[^]).