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Well, like opendbx, maybe because opengl has quite standard interface...

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and

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It's not that it's not doable, it's that we gonna reinvent gaz plant
and it gonna be so boring...
I'd like to see a proof of concept, even if we restrict to libc, libm,
kernel.dll, msvcrt.dll ...

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Is the unix style select()
ubiquitous or should I use WaitForMultipleObject() on Windows? Are
specification of read/write streams implementation machine independant
(bsd/sysv/others...)

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Perhaps *a* way forward is to try to find existing projects which have already created cross-platform abstractions for platform specific functionality. Then we can use FFI to access that interface in a similar way to OpenGL and OpenDBX. For example NodeJs works across unixes - perhaps they have a useful cross-platform abstraction, boost �has abstractions of IPC etc�

Nick