'morning i've selled a suite composed by a fortran and a VB6 program. Now an
buyer has got a linux platform. For fortran may i have to rebuilt and
re-compile  with linux compiler .... maybe .... but with VB ??????? how can i
do  ?
Thanx in advance lele.

Unless you have a Windows emulator you cannot run or compile VB on Linux.

I think there is a windows emulator for Linux - (called WINE , I think).
You would run wine, and run your app on wine.
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otherwise -- rewrite it in java.
HTH

Emulator is a moot term, in a self-referential way WINE stands for "Wine Is
Not an Emulator" - personally I think they are being a bit precious, but
it's their project so I guess they can call it what ever they wish.

Dave O.

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  Actually it's translated as "WINdows Emulator" just
as often. But recursive acronyms seem to especially
tickle the hyper-geek sense of humor.

    Wine really isn't an emulator, though. It's a set of
libraries and an environment that act as a Windows
API, translating calls into their Linux counterparts.
I've been experimenting with Wine lately. It's exciting
in that it provides a basic runtime for Windows software
and there's a realistic chance that VB can be ported
via Wine. It's also discouraging in that COM is poorly
supported. (If you want it to work, use API.) and the
whole Wine project is like a lot of what happens on
Linux: It just drags on, year after year, never getting
finished. They're at v. 0.9.9 right now but it's a pile of
bugs when running VB software and there are lots of
minor glitches with other software. Also, Wine is notably
slow - not a good bet for a processor-intensive operation
that needs to happen quickly.


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Emanuele wrote:
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Sell them on having a windows terminal server.  They can connect to it
from linux, mac or windows based machines.

Install your software on the terminal server and tada!  Your software on
any(well, sort of) platform.

Chances are, buying a terminal server, windows licenses and having it
set up will be quicker and cheaper then porting or re-writing the app
itself.

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