Penguin
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Able to run on more than one platform. Differnet people have different idea's about what CrossPlatform means. Most Unix people consider CrossPlatform to mean that it will run on other Unix platforms and probably implements/uses POSIX interfaces. MicrosoftCorporation often say "CrossPlatform" when they mean it runs on Windows 95, Windows 2000, and maybe Windows CE.

wxWindows is a GUI toolkit that allows your source code to be very portable - often you only need to re-compile the source code against a different port of the toolkit to get native look-and-feel on GTK, Motif, MacOS9?, MacOSX, and WIN32? (and some other graphical platforms). I think you can even compile and link against the windows port of GTK!