Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-31 Thread Pablo Manalastas
Quoting CYWare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try QT from trolltech. Easier than MFC/MOTIF/GTK and has a portable > framework (X/MAC/Windows/Solaris) for gui.. Add Zaurus to this list please. Qt for Zaurus seems to go by the name Qtopia (Zaurus owners please correct me). Or is Qt the library name, and

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread CYWare
> (license for the Win32 sdk is expensive, but free for *nix like OS), Its also free on Windows (Windows Non-Commercial Edition). You only have to pay if you don't want to distribute source code with your application. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Ariz Jacinto
Gideon N. Guillen wrote: On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:08, Ariz Jacinto wrote: if you're going to port your apps from Linux to Windows, how would you do it (and why)? How about code your app to be cross-platform from the very start. :) If you're coding in C/C++, you might w

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gideon N. Guillen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How about code your app to be cross-platform from the very start. :) If > you're coding in C/C++, you might want to check out Qt from Trolltech > (license for the Win32 sdk is expensive, but free for *nix like OS), > WxWindows, Gtk (I believe there'

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread CYWare
Try QT from trolltech. Easier than MFC/MOTIF/GTK and has a portable framework (X/MAC/Windows/Solaris) for gui, graphics (standard & opengl), sockets (standard, dns, ftp, http), threads (mutex, semaphore), collections (arrays, vectors, stacks, queues), and finally database connectivity (most RDBMS

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Gideon N. Guillen
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:08, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > if you're going to port your apps from Linux to Windows, > how would you do it (and why)? How about code your app to be cross-platform from the very start. :) If you're coding in C/C++, you might want to check out Qt from Trolltech (license for th

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Horatio B. Bogbindero
have fun! http://www.winehq.org/?page=documentation Quoting Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > > >how about: > > > >f. recompile you app using winelib. it is not perfect but a good number of apps > >already > >work there. > > > > > > > > > interestin

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Miguel A Paraz
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:08:58PM +0800, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > e. Code in Java from square one. my choice too, but how about: f. code in C#/Mono, and help the project in coding the missing pieces. ;) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.ne

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Ariz Jacinto
Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: how about: f. recompile you app using winelib. it is not perfect but a good number of apps already work there. interesting. any link? TIA -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Websit

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Melvin Dave P. Vivas MCOM/3794
> if you're going to port your apps from Linux to Windows, > how would you do it (and why)? > > e. Code in Java from square one. > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives:

Re: [plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Horatio B. Bogbindero
how about: f. recompile you app using winelib. it is not perfect but a good number of apps already work there. Quoting Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > if you're going to port your apps from Linux to Windows, > how would you do it (and why)? > > > a. Recompile the app using MS V

[plug] Porting Linux Apps to MS Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Ariz Jacinto
if you're going to port your apps from Linux to Windows, how would you do it (and why)? a. Recompile the app using MS VC++/C# & Install the existing windows port of the servers to be used. b. Recompile the app on Cygwin. c. Install Linux on top of VMware instead. d. No way.