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Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 6517

Will a compiled vb6 application theoretically work under WINE on Mac?

Another developer at work told me it wouldn't work for some reason specific to Visual Basic 6 applications.

But I think it should work as long as you include the correct DLLs and runtime files, isn't VB6 compiled to machine code?

EDIT: I just mean in general should it be possible. I'm going to actually test this out in a few days as long as nobody gives me a theoretical reason it won't work.

EDIT 2: I think the developer was referring to P-code, which vb6 can optionally compile to instead of binary which runs under a virtual machine similar to (or the precursor of) the .Net framework.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3896

Answers (2)

wqw
wqw

Reputation: 11991

I've tested a large VB6 app in Wine under Ubuntu. Event the msi installer worked fine. Had some troubles with low-level implementation details (e.g. in NM_CUSTOMDRAW on CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW phase the hDC text is not transparent by default as in Windows common controls). So yes, even heavily subclassed stuff works. I just had to iron those minor glitches.

Here is a function that checks if app is running under wine

Property Get IsWine() As Boolean
    IsWine = (GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("kernel32"), "wine_get_unix_file_name") <> 0)
End Property

Upvotes: 3

Jason Kirby
Jason Kirby

Reputation: 17

Take a look at this http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7361

It looks like you can get most VB6 programs to work.

Upvotes: 1

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