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Antonio,

Is it possible to use Visual Studio express 2013 + xHarbour?
I downloaded the file
https://code.google.com/p/fivewin-contributions/downloads/detail?name=tutor02_msvc2012_ok.zip
This is an example with Harbour. Do I have to change anything for xharbour?

If I run 'tutor02.exe' from the zip, I get an error that MSVCR110D.dll is missing. Doesn't exe-file build with Visual Studio run without dll-files like BCC does?

Thanks,

Marc,

We have never used xHarbour and Visual Studio together, so I really don't know if they work together properly.

The project file that I posted is for Harbour only, though it could be used if xHarbour for Microsoft is used (also, we haven't built this one ever) and also FWH libs for such xHarbour don't exist

Why don't you try it with Harbour ? Its quite easy and all the files are tested and working fine

I wasn't aware that the EXEs built from the Visual Studio IDE were requesting MSVCR110D.dll. Surely there may be a flag to disable it, so I will check it. Thanks for pointing this

Using Visual Studio Express you can build your FWH and Harbour apps from a makefile (we have provided it here, if you want it I can provide you the url of the post), so you have both ways to work: from the Visual Studio IDE and also from a batch+makefile from a console window (cmd.exe)

Antonio,

I will try to move from xHarbour+BCC to Harbour+Microsoft Visual studio.
I'm reading a lot of post about moving to Harbour, but is there a list with known differences, and things I should consinder while converting?

Thanks

Marc,

This is the official Harbour and xHarbour differences:

https://github.com/harbour/core/blob/master/doc/xhb-diff.txt

but if you are using "standard" Clipper language code, you should not have any problems at all. Michel in these forums has been able to rebuild his app with Harbour in 3 or 4 days. Tim Stone is also using Harbour (and he migrated from xHarbour), and many others.

Also you will have all our help on your migration

Antonio,

Thank you for the anwer. What would be the best order to move from FWH7.10 xHarbour to FWH14.04 Harbour?

First moving from FWH7.10 to FWH14.04, and then from xHarbour to Harbour, or first from to xHarbour to Harbour, and then from FWH7.10 to FWH14.04?

Marc,

1. To update FWH to the current version 14.04

2. Start using Harbour + FWH 14.04

If you are using a makefile, or a batchfile, etc. once you decide if you want to use Borland or Microsoft, then we will provide you a working makile, very easy to use, that will build your EXE.