RE: [VB4Linux-Dev] (no subject)
Status: Planning
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From: Abhijit P. <abh...@ma...> - 2000-11-21 15:17:49
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ya...Linux versions of VB OCX or DLLs would be good... any idea of what exactly an OCX is...I mean...fileformat information? > -----Original Message----- > From: vb4...@li... > [mailto:vb4...@li...]On Behalf Of Luke-Jr > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 6:41 PM > To: vb4...@li... > Subject: Re: [VB4Linux-Dev] (no subject) > > > Well, the /BEST/ way to do this would be to make a pre-emulator which > makes a Linux version of any DLL or OCX and then I can simply run all the > Visual Basic.NET DLLs and OCXes thru it... Whether this is possible tho, > is a different thing... Also, I'm pretty sure all the VB DLLs and OCXes > are okay to distribute cuz usually they'd be useless... > > abh...@ma... wrote: > > > > could we leverage the Tcl/Tk debug environment for our > > > debugging program if > > > we code vb2c in Tcl/Tk? any idea how? In that case it could be > > > of help... > > > > > > Well coding it in a higher level language like Tcl would give you a > > > speeder turn around in development time as you know (and more people > > > could support it). We could write hooks in C (in the support libs we > > will > > > need anyway) to help with debugging and could generate the calls for > > them > > > on the fly in Tcl from the debugger (It would be easier for "code > > > injection" with it), so yes it could help. > > > > > > There are a couple of other options for debugging. We could > > > generate a.out > > > or elf stubs section with the debugging symbols and write and > > > extension for > > > gdb. This would take more time tho. We could also write a VM and > > have > > > hooks into it for debugging. > > > > I think it would be the best to code debugger in C. > > > > vb apps in design stage would use pre-existing .so files to run in a > > virtual environment where the debugger would be present. Once we have > > to release the vb app, we shall then put it thro vb2c. > > > > Also, about using wine libs...looks OK on the surface, but can we > > emulate only a specific dll or OCX using wine? > > Also, when we want to emulate them, we'd need to have them > > first...which means we need to have M$ VisualBasic installed on the win > > partition first...before VB4Linux can use the OCX files...which is not > > what should be. > > ...which could mean that we have to have native OCX files.... > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > This Message was Powered by Xcel Communications > > Sign up for your FREE EMAIL account today at http://www.mailroom.com > > Give your FAX machine an email address http://www.faxroom.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VB4Linux-Dev mailing list > > VB4...@li... > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/vb4linux-dev > |