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Porting to Mac
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:53 PM

Any concrete experience in porting From FWH to FMC?
Is it difficult?
Is it laboriuos?
is it dangerous?

dbfcdx + dbffpt , local area network, jpg, read and create word document
read and create and excel document....well as usual!

And what about utilization of graphical librearies such as
FreeImage.dll or libgfl254.dll

Thanks in advance
marco : :P

Marco Boschi
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Porting to Mac
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 01:17 PM

Marco,

FiveMac is not at that stage yet. We can not talk about "port" from FWH to FMC.

FiveMac actually is usefull to build not very complex applications. Lets say like an early FiveWin version.

Harbour is fully working so you have DBFs, indexes, etc. and FiveMac provides main pulldown menu, windows, dialogs, controls and browses.

regards, saludos

Antonio Linares
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Re: Porting to Mac
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:51 AM
MarcoBoschi wrote:Any concrete experience in porting From FWH to FMC?
Is it difficult?
Is it laboriuos?
is it dangerous?

Dangerous? YES :-)

Dangerous for Bill Gates! When you guys see and feel how smooth and beautiful OSX works, you will all switch!

:-)

MarcoBoschi wrote:And what about utilization of graphical librearies such as FreeImage.dll or libgfl254.dll

They will not work as you can not use DLL's in OSX. Maybe these libraries can be recompiled for OSX?

Patrick
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Porting to Mac
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:08 AM

Patrick,

>
They will not work as you can not use DLL's in OSX. Maybe these libraries can be recompiled for OSX?
>

OSX can use DLLs, they are just called dynamic libraries.

Yes, probably there should be an OSX version of those DLLs.

regards, saludos

Antonio Linares
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Porting to Mac
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:11 AM
Antonio Linares wrote:Patrick,

>
They will not work as you can not use DLL's in OSX. Maybe these libraries can be recompiled for OSX?
>

OSX can use DLLs, they are just called dynamic libraries.


Yes, but I was trying to be careful :-)
You can not take a DLL from a windows PC and use it in OSX. Yes, you can rebuild it for OSX if you have the source. It's not a DLL anymore, its a OSX dynamic library now.

Patrick
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Porting to Mac
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 07:56 AM

Thanks to all

marco

Marco Boschi
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