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Old February 22nd 07, 06:45 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Roy Lewallen Roy Lewallen is offline
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Default EZNEC and Linux

Nate Bargmann wrote:

Understood, Roy.

Besides being an emulator/program loader, Wine also has winelib which is
intended as a way to recompile Windows applications for Linux (and other Free
Unix systems like BSD, etc.) so they can run natively. This would avoid a
complete porting effort.


Wow, I didn't know anything could compile Visual Basic 6 code for any
operating system environment except Windows. How well does it handle
Windows API calls? EZNEC uses many, many of them. What does it do about
functions in COM and ActiveX files? Does it recompile those too? What
about third party software in the form of COM or ActiveX files, which
can't be recompiled due to lack of source code? Does it successfully
substitute for Windows Registry operations?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL