I'm writing the Winelib part of the book. The main audience is Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 users. I can define a development environment for both MFC and non-MFC users, since it is well documented already.
I was wondering - I'd like to include a section for Visual Basic 6.0 users. Beyond running the .EXEs in Wine, is it possible to use Winelib to convert VB6.0 apps? How does it differ from the VC++ environment? There's a _lot_ of VB6 code out there. Attracting these developers will help the Wine project (and sales of our book) tremendously.
Thanks for your input. Ira
Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2005 08:43 schrieb Ira Krakow:
I'm writing the Winelib part of the book. The main audience is Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 users. I can define a development environment for both MFC and non-MFC users, since it is well documented already.
I was wondering - I'd like to include a section for Visual Basic 6.0 users. Beyond running the .EXEs in Wine, is it possible to use Winelib to convert VB6.0 apps? How does it differ from the VC++ environment? There's a _lot_ of VB6 code out there. Attracting these developers will help the Wine project (and sales of our book) tremendously.
As far as I can tell from my own VB experiance, VB has it's own compiler. I don't think it's possible to simply recompile VB apps with winelib, but maybe VB users should have a look at Gambas(gambas.sf.net). It's a VB-like development environment with a VB-like Language.
Cheers, Stefan
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:43:59 -0800, Ira Krakow wrote:
I was wondering - I'd like to include a section for Visual Basic 6.0 users. Beyond running the .EXEs in Wine, is it possible to use Winelib to convert VB6.0 apps?
No, there are no free/Linux Visual Basic compilers. Gambas is VB-like, it's not actually fully compatible with VB code. VB users just have to run the EXEs like any other win32 app.
thanks -mike
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