Porting an Application to a New Operating System
As previously discussed, porting is an activity of moving a custom application, written in one or more programming languages, to a new operating system (OS). This activity relates primarily to creating a new executable that is compatible with the new OS. This is accomplished by modifying the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by the software so that they conform to or match the APIs offered by the new OS while maintaining similar functionality.
A detailed understanding of the application logic is not necessary for this task. Instead, familiarity with the development tools and the linkers and library technology that exist for the target environment is required because the porting effort ...
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