[Wine] Re: Porting a windows application using COM, ActiveX, MFC

vitamin
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:57:40 -0000

jaytirth wrote:
> Can I successfully port a windows application using COM, ActiveX, OLE, MFC,
Win32 API to Linux with Wine?

You can't port anything to Linux with listed stuff. None of it has native
analogs. As far as Wine, COM works, all depends what objects you need, ActiveX
is still highly iffy, OLE has number of limitations, but in most part works. MFC
does not exists in Wine, and the rest is win32 api.

If you talking about creating a winelib app of significant complexity - simply
don't. It has no advantages over running native Windows application on plain
Wine. Unless you really want to use native Linux functionality. In that case,
you'll be better off writing a real native Linux port.