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Is there an Integrated Developemnt Environment (IDE) that enables us to write programs for Windows and Mac in Ubuntu?

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  • You could use virtualbox to virtualize any environment you want. What language are you developing in?
    – adempewolff
    May 28, 2012 at 7:36
  • C++ or C#. but if there is a language similar to Visual Basic, I'd prefer that.
    – Mujahid
    May 28, 2012 at 7:41
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    You'll be happy to know that Mono actually supports Visual Basic 8.
    – Eliah Kagan
    May 28, 2012 at 8:29
  • As long as you just write it for the specific OS (so don't import libraries and the like based on other OSs), you should be fine. So yes.
    – Dr_Bunsen
    May 28, 2012 at 15:48
  • Do you mean so long as the program is not OS-specific, then it should run on multiple OSes? It's not totally clear what you mean.
    – Eliah Kagan
    May 28, 2012 at 16:06

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From http://monodevelop.com/

MonoDevelop is an IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and to maintain a single code base for all platforms.

MonoDevelop is based on Mono, a free open source implementation of the .NET Framework. Mono supports C#, but also supports Visual Basic 8. MonoDevelop supports multiple languages, including C# and Visual Basic, So if you prefer to develop in VB, you can do that with MonoDevelop on Ubuntu, and you can run your VB programs on Ubuntu (and Windows) too.

Sounds like that is what you need.

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  • @EliahKagan, please do not edit new content in the actual answer, but feel free to add it in a comment (or write your own answer)
    – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
    May 28, 2012 at 8:31
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    May 28, 2012 at 8:34
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You can cross-compile Windows executables under Ubuntu using the mingw32 package, as described in the answers to this question:

How to program for Windows in Ubuntu?

Alternatively, if you stick to platform independent APIs (e.g. GTK or Qt for graphical applications, or any other libraries that are portable to the target system) it is possible to port to Windows or MacOS without too much trouble.

In either case, you will probably want to test them on your chosen target platform to make sure they actually function correctly there. So it won't necessarily remove the need to access those platforms.

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Qt Creator is one such IDE:

http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/qt-creator/

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No one has said java !

And the most popular ide eclipse

Java for apple.

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You should definiely consider Java or Python, both languages are platform-independent and are relatively easy to program. But the advantage with python is that you do not have to compile it so that it does not have to be compiled in Windows to run on it.

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