Hey guys, i've entered an engineering school this year and have started using python and java, i'm doing okay at the moment.
I have been doing silly things on javaFX like doing a small solar system that i will attach with this post so you can have a look

So i wanted to start learning C++ (not necessarily C++) and openGL just to start coding simple things.

I've been wondering on google for quite a while and this is the reason why i'm posting here.
I'm coding using a mac (i can dualboot to window though) and i rather stay on OSX if possible.
I want to be able to compile for Windows, OSX and Linux. But Xcode does not seem very nice for doing that.

I was wondering if you guys knew any programming tool that was good for doing cross platform compiling.

Thanks in advance guys.

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Ownez wrote: So i wanted to start learning C++ (not necessarily C++) and openGL

and this

simple things.

do not belong in the same sentence.



Unfortunately I don't know of any tool like the one you request, but undoubtedly someone here will. CMake is the only thing that comes to mind.

Yeah i see what you mean, I should say make simple things out of complex code

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And thanks for the advice i will have a look at CMake.

Ownez wrote:Yeah i see what you mean, I should say make simple things out of complex code

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And thanks for the advice i will have a look at CMake.

CMake is the way to go. getting it setup is not simple.
If you want to write C++ and do 3D stuff easily, I can highly recommend Urho3D, once you have it compiling and sorted, it's really powerful and handles much of the heavy lifting for you. Abstracting away the OGL calls, which is a godsend, hardware is evil imo.

It also has premade CMake scripts to allow easy cross compile. (Which is why I mention it)

http://urho3d.github.io/

Easier and nicer than Irrlicht, Ogre, or Unity imho.