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As Derek stated rewrite is a must. You may want to look into some utilities that will port MS VB code to MS C++ code. This may save you a little work but may also add time spent analyzing what can stay and what must go for it to be ported. Good Luck with the newly acquired headache. (see mission statement below) Kevin The quest for platform interoperability may cause any or all of the following: divorce impotence grey hair bankruptcy loss of job heavy alcohol consumption headache blindness undying urge to torch Win box On Wednesday, July 12, 2000 7:11 AM, Derek Fountain [SMTP:fountai@hursley.ibm.com] wrote:
My boss found out that I use Linux and has given me the task of trying to get our software product to run on Linux. The only problem is that it is all written in VB6! (I don't have anything to do with VB, I work on the old PICK system!)
What I need to know is: 1) is there anyway I could port the software across and if so, what is involved? 2) Is there any software that might be able to transfer VB coding into something that Linux could accept?? 3) Has anyone got any suggestions of the best way to proceed?
Rewrite it. Seriously.
There's no way of porting Visual Basic stuff to Linux, and zero chance of MS ever doing a VB runtime port. You might get it to work under Wine, but it'll never be a realistic commercial proposition. I'm not quite sure how VB works underneath, but to make it work with Winelib you probably need MS to recompile the VB run time system using Winelib. See point 1.
You're locked in. Your bosses have chosen to do their platform development using a single platform utility, instead of a cross platform one. The day has arrived that they rue that decision. You can do little but make enough noise so that remember this when they commission you to write version 2.
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