On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:30:29 -0800, Roy Lewallen wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have
to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

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.

73, de Nate

--

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
the pessimist fears this is true."

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

Roy Lewallen writes:

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.

I believe winelib is for C. Which certainly looks like a showstopper
in your case.

How well does it handle Windows API calls? EZNEC uses many, many of
them.

About as well as the corresponding version of wine, presumably.

What does it do
about functions in COM and ActiveX files? Does it recompile those
too?

I can't see how it could do that.

What about third party software in the form of COM or ActiveX files,
which can't be recompiled due to lack of source code?

Rhetorical question?

Does it successfully substitute for Windows Registry operations?

I'm sure it tries to, but I've never tested.

The Mono guys (.NET for Linux & friends) just announced support for
Visual Basic.NET. But I this is probably too different from old
fashioned Visual Basic to be of much help.

73
LA4RT Jon