wine users - Mar 2009 - Application design tips for integration with Wine ??

Hi,

I ussually develop in VB 6.0 for Windows XP operating system. Are there any
application design tips that I could follow, so that my applications could work
in Wine ??

I mostly design real-time applications that use the serial port for interaction
with an external hardware.

Are there any such design tips ??

thanks
aa

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:21 AM, arunb <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ussually develop in VB 6.0 for Windows XP operating system. Are there any
application design tips that I could follow, so that my applications could work
in Wine ??
Be sure to bundle the visual basic runtimes with your application.
Test your application on Wine, and file bugs for any problems you see.
Since you have the source, attach a small testcase to make the bug
easier to fix.
> I mostly design real-time applications that use the serial port for
interaction with an external hardware.
Serial support is kinda crappy in Wine...most developers don't have
that hardware, and so support has languished. As for real-time,
depending on the user's kernel, this may be difficult to achieve.

-- 
-Austin

arunb wrote:
> I ussually develop in VB 6.0 for Windows XP operating system. Are there any
application design tips that I could follow, so that my applications could work
in Wine ??
> 
> I mostly design real-time applications that use the serial port for
interaction with an external hardware.
You kidding right? VB and real-time? ROFL... I never had sooooo much laugh in my
life!

You either don't use VB or you don't write real-time anything. Besides,
what RT are you talking about on windows? Or you using specially modified
versions of it for soft RT (windows by definition is incapable of hard-RT)?

As Austin said, Wine has number of issues with serial ports. It's a hit and
miss. My suggestion write native Linux app instead.