Hello all,

I have a large application that was originally develped under windows using parts of the MFC class library. Generally, all the MFC calls are to menu buttons, lists, and dialogs.

I would like to bring the application over to Linux, but the question is what is the better way to do it?

1) I could compile the program on linux using Wine, will I lose performance? If wine is every discontinued I could be in a heap of trouble, so i also do not like to be dependant upon them.

2) If I strip out the MFC program, which is the best library under Linux to replace it with Qt? I would like to replace it with something universal, well supported, and closly related to MFC.

Thank,
PhaseSpace

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PhaseSpace,

AFAIK, there is no "MFC-to-something-else" wrapper or "MFC for Linux" available. Sorry to tell you, but you have to recode manually all the MFC calls (or write an wrapper yourselves). You know that MFC is owned by a company not very sympathic with Linux, do you ?

For the non-GUI MFC stuff ("CString"), you would have to recode it it to STL which is also available for Win32.

The main choices for portable GUI frameworks is either Trolltech's Qt (free on Linux, expensive on other platforms) or GTK (free, but somehow limited).

Wine is an option, but IMHO not a very satisfying one - too much of trade-in in performance.

Sorry, I would love to have better news.

HTH,

Peter

Keep watching the mono project. This is a cross-platform .net implementation. http://www.go-mono.com/

Others are kylix3 from Borland (free) which is similar to a Linux port of Delhi plus C++ support, or Trolltech qt3.

Ok, thanks for the replys.

Looks like the best route is to port the program to Qt. I am looking at using Qt embedded as our program is currently on Windows embedded, but it is a question of whether or not Qt embedded can work with OpenGL. Otherwise I will go with straight Qt.

Thanks for your responces.

PhaseSpace