Thread for Win32 and WinCE platform

Question

I am trying to write a simple console application which needs to work on both Win32 and WinCE(6.0). I`m using visual studio 2013 to develope my Win32 console application. Will the same application work for WinCE?

Also I`m creating threads using _beginthread, will that be compatible with WinCE? Other like, assert.h, process.h, iostream, sstream, map, deque, vector, list

Can someone help on this?

Answer 1

Will the same application work for WinCE?

I am developing application that is compiled both on desktop and (among others) on WindowsCE 5.0 (using Standard SDK). So it is possible, but you have to remember that WindowsCE API is a subset of desktop API. I am using Visual Studio 2005, I thought that Windows CE development is available only up to VS2008.

Also I`m creating threads using _beginthread, will that be compatible with WinCE?

no, you will have to abstract out thread creation (even with define), use CreateThread under windows ce.

assert.h, iostream, sstream, map, deque, vector, list

yes, full STL is available - also you can use STLPort. Depending on your device you might not have a console on it, I at least work on devices where std::cout simply is not available.

process.h

no, at least under WinCE 5.0