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From: Joe Soap on 25 Jan 2010 07:40 Hello all I'm prety sure that this has been asked before, but I can't find a suitable answer on Google et al. My question is: Can VB6 be run on Linux? Thank you Regards David
From: Ralph on 25 Jan 2010 08:12 Joe Soap wrote: > Hello all > > I'm prety sure that this has been asked before, but I can't find a > suitable answer on Google et al. My question is: Can VB6 be run on > Linux? > There are various Rube Goldberg emulations, but even then there are limitations. The literal and practical answer is NO. -ralph
From: mayayana on 25 Jan 2010 10:19 > > I'm prety sure that this has been asked before, but I can't find a suitable > answer on Google et al. My question is: Can VB6 be run on Linux? > winehq.org I did some experimenting a couple of years ago, after the Wine people invited participation from VB people. My results are explained here: http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vblinux.php5 In general I found that most software runs, but slowly and with glitches. Documentation for Wine is nearly non-existent. (As it is, frustratingly, for most things Linux.) And the Wine people are not interested in collaborating on a Win32 API emulation. They're just trying to get specific Windows software to run on Linux. (They certainly didn't want to collaborate with me. What I encountered seemed to be a sort of paramilitary structure in which I was invited to be a bug reporter, with strict requirements about exactly how those bugs got reported. ...But maybe that's not so much a Wine problem. Maybe I was just encountering what happens when corporate employees, accustomed to "teams" and strict oversight, decide to create their own project.) If you look at what has high-level support in Wine it's not encouraging. The list is mostly games. The project has been going on for over a decade, seemingly little more than an effort by geeks and kids to get their favorite computer games running on Linux. Wine may be working much better now than it was when I last tried it, but I don't have high hopes. It just goes on and on, with new releases about every 10 days, and no end-point in sight. If you just want to run something on Linux for your own purposes, that may be very much doable, especially if you stick to API and avoid using controls. Aside from Wine I don't know of any way to actually run VB6 software on Linux. I saw something recently about someone who is actually working on a Win32 API analog. But I don't remember the link. It didn't sound like something that was likely to happen any time soon.
From: Nobody on 25 Jan 2010 11:40 Besides what others suggested, see these links: Installing Visual Basic Applications on Linux http://www.kegel.com/wine/vb/ WineHQ - Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1325 These are the first 2 links when googling "vb6 linux wine". Mayanna link is the 3rd link :-)
From: Schmidt on 25 Jan 2010 14:04 "mayayana" <mayaXXyana(a)rcXXn.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:uToMMGdnKHA.1548(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... My original reply is not accepted by the MS-server... So, here's a link to it: www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/linux-wine-reply.txt Olaf
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