Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 11.09, Eddie Howson wrote:
> Does anyone know of a linux clone?  I want to compile some code that was
> written using Ms Visual C++, on my linux machine.  Is this possible or am I
> barking up the wrong tree?

It depends on what the code looks like. If it was written using MFC you're in 
for some porting work. If it's C++ à la Soustroup it should probably compile 
as is.

There are a few articles on porting MFC programs using various toolkits

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-mfc/

is one from IBM. It might also be possible using a combination of ingenuity 
and wine (possibly both kinds :). I know you get the source for the MFC 
wrapper classes along with MSVC++, it just might be possible to compile 
against wine using them, but I haven't tried it. It is one of the stated 
goals of the wine project (www.winehq.com) though.

regards
Anders