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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by 72deluxe on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:21AM (#14165827)
But there's no COM on Linux. How can I magically port my software across if I do not have access to all the wonders of COM, eg. MS XML and have to rewrite my software from scratch?

At least with Microsoft you have support for APIs for a long long time; eg. MFC is old but it is still supported. With Linux you are on your own.

So "get your software on Linux" is easy to say but in the real world it isn't so easy.

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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by poizan42 on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:04AM (#14166202)
Use winelib if you want a quick and dirty port
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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by cptskippy on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:38PM (#14167098)
That's very dismissive.
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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by poizan42 on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:52PM (#14168874)
Why? I was providing a solution. There's nothing wrong with using winelib if you want to port Windows software to linux.
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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by cptskippy on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:39PM (#14169249)
There isn't anything wrong with using wine but tossing it out there as the cure-all for Windows based applications is wreck less. I haven't played with wine in quite some time but it has a track record of "working" rather than working.
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