Re: visual c
Francois Gouget wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] there is also a number of other libraries (for GUI), I don't think you have to use ms libs, you can use e.g. wxwindows, qt etc..., also, if the application doesn't have complicated gui the porting might be fairly easy... (it also depends on how well the app is designed, if the gui is farily independent of back-end it's much easier to port it). Without knowing anything about his application it's hard to say, but it is easy to end up using MS specific things when coding on Windows. And it's not just about the GUI: it's also about ReadFileEx, CreateMutex, CreateProcess, registry APIs, ACL management, asynchronous file operations, COM/DCOM, ... I guess generally speaking you're right, unless the program was written with portability in mind (and wizard were avoided) it probably doesn't really resemble c++ much... erik
Re: visual c
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] there is also a number of other libraries (for GUI), I don't think you have to use ms libs, you can use e.g. wxwindows, qt etc..., also, if the application doesn't have complicated gui the porting might be fairly easy... (it also depends on how well the app is designed, if the gui is farily independent of back-end it's much easier to port it). Without knowing anything about his application it's hard to say, but it is easy to end up using MS specific things when coding on Windows. And it's not just about the GUI: it's also about ReadFileEx, CreateMutex, CreateProcess, registry APIs, ACL management, asynchronous file operations, COM/DCOM, ... -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ In a world without fences who needs Gates?
Re: visual c
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: Ing. Luis Chávez Romo wrote: I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way to move an aplication developed in visual c to linux. it depends on libraries used, if the libraries are not available for linux than it might be quite hard. Another option is to have not entirely native application and use wine (kinda ugly but it might help the transition). Unless your application only uses the C library, your only solution to port it to Linux is to use either Wine, then you run the .exe using Wine, or Winelib, i.e. recompiling it against the Wine libraries. The Winelib way requires a bit more work, but will allow you to also call Unix APIs (may allow for a better integration) and to progressively migrate your application to a more portable API (although the transition may not be easy, porting to a new API never is). To learn more about Wine see the WineHQ web site: http://www.winehq.com/ -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Avoid the Gates of Hell - use Linux.
Re: visual c
Francois Gouget wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: Ing. Luis Chávez Romo wrote: I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way to move an aplication developed in visual c to linux. it depends on libraries used, if the libraries are not available for linux than it might be quite hard. Another option is to have not entirely native application and use wine (kinda ugly but it might help the transition). Unless your application only uses the C library, your only solution to port it to Linux is to use either Wine, then you run the .exe using Wine, or Winelib, i.e. recompiling it against the Wine libraries. The Winelib way requires a bit more work, but will allow you to also call Unix APIs (may allow for a better integration) and to progressively migrate your application to a more portable API (although the transition may not be easy, porting to a new API never is). To learn more about Wine see the WineHQ web site: http://www.winehq.com/ there is also a number of other libraries (for GUI), I don't think you have to use ms libs, you can use e.g. wxwindows, qt etc..., also, if the application doesn't have complicated gui the porting might be fairly easy... (it also depends on how well the app is designed, if the gui is farily independent of back-end it's much easier to port it). erik
Re: visual c
Ing. Luis Chávez Romo wrote: I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way to move an aplication developed in visual c to linux. it depends on libraries used, if the libraries are not available for linux than it might be quite hard. Another option is to have not entirely native application and use wine (kinda ugly but it might help the transition). erik
