Re: How to convert a Borland C++ App to Visual Studio App

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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:43:38 GMT

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In article <ekWgpBngKHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Darko Miletic <darko@uvcms.com> wrote:

Nithin wrote:

Hi all,

We are sitting with a bit of a challenge. We are trying to convert a
Borland
C++ App to either Microsoft Visual Studio C++.net or Visual Studio 6.
We
cannot find any resources on the net that can explain how and if this
can be
done.

Well, you are not saying enough about what you need.
Is there GUI stuff? What kind of app it is? Is it multithreaded?
How big it is? What kind of stuff it does?
What kind of specifically Borland stuff you do?
ALL sorts of things.

Or you are just looking for some magic tool that will allow you
to port it without moving a finger?

However this application was developed there is no way to directly port
this to VS. Borland technologies (VCL or OWL) are just totaly different
from MFC or .NET.

I recommend you to not use MFC or .NET either. Instead try using
something portable like QT (http://qt.nokia.com/)

How good of a performance the QT has?
How easy does it map to an MFC app?

And lastly, some time ago I heard there was some copyright related
issues. Don't remember what exactly, but something to the extent
the closed at least some of their code. What kind of issues does
it raise.

I need to port my monitoring firewall app to Linux.
Two things I am concerned is GUI code. Has to be non modal,
property sheet/property page type of stuff with fully resizable
dialogs.

And there is an NDIS intermediate driver.
Other stuff does not look like a big deal. Pretty straigtforward.

I did not look at QT stuff yet. Just want to get a rough idea
if it something worth looking at.

or wxWidgets
(http://www.wxwidgets.org/) that way you will have much less problems if
you ever decide to switch to another compiler or even operating system.

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