Hello,

I need to move a small system from Windows to Linux; the problem is that it makes heavily use of windows.h stuff, like constants, functions, etc. The question is if is there anything similar to windows.h in Linux, that could be a Windows emulator, or whatever. Or is better that I write something like a linux.h (or any other name) to include in Linux all the stuff windows.h has, doing their respective adaptations of course, to make it available to the system I am moving to?

Thanks

Since you are changing OS's, there is more than simply getting your code to compile. Satisfying the syntax requirements of the toolchain is one thing, but don't forget that there are semantics behind all of the system calls, and that also needs to be reproduced. By your wording, 'it makes heavily use of windows.h stuff', so I think you can expect there to be a lot of work to port the code. At some point, it is probably better to simply re-write the code using Linux facilities, rather than trying to wedge the code into a foreign environment.

--- rod.

Yes, you'll need to rewrite it.

If you tell us what the Windows.h stuff in the program was doing, we can suggest Linux equivalents. Start by telling us which widget toolkit (gtk? qt?) you're using for the Linux version.

Any reason you can't simply run it under WINE?

WINE: http://www.winehq.org/ .

Yes, I think Wine could work. I still need to do many tests.


Thanks
Really appreciate.

Regards

Enrique

You could run linux, then virtualize the windows box into a VM... qemu/xen/vmware etc...