Running VB app in Linux

rick · 01-17-2002, 09:36 AM

Is there any way I can build an .exe file in Visual Basic 6.0 for Windows and get it to run in Linux? I tried compiling a basic one and testing it in Linux and nothing happened. Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated (I hope this isnt a stupid question)

Rick

bluecadet · 01-17-2002, 09:45 AM

vb is a windows based language, and certainly compiling it under windows and trying to run it under linux is.. sadly.. a dumb thign to try and do, sorry!

there may be some form of VB on linux, but it certainly won't be the windows version. you can try using a windows emulator like wine... but that's not a solution. the real solution is, of course, to learn c. ;-)

Citizen Bleys · 01-21-2002, 10:33 AM

You can't run a windows app in Linux without an emulator, period.

Sadly, to the best of the knowledge, there is no Visual Basic -> (Linux-compatible language) converter, nor is there a VB compiler for Linux.

Of course, Linux has better support for PHP, Tcl/TK, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc., etc., etc.

barazor · 01-22-2002, 12:08 AM

theres something called rapid-q, it looks like delphi(or kylix for that matter), but the language underneath is BASIC, so it would be easy to port vb to it(uses the same properties and such)

Mik · 01-22-2002, 03:23 AM

They are planning on starting a project for that:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vb4linux

But unless you plan on helping out I think you'll be better off learning a more platform independent language like C.

But if your really stuck in the Visual Basic stuff and don't wanna convert then you might want to try looking at the following site:
http://www.janus-software.com