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Hi,<br />
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I'm wondering what technologies i should be looking at if i want to port a windows VB 6 application accross to run on Linux, Unix and Mac OSX?<br />
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Is there anythign that immediately springs to mind? &nbsp;Would i have to rebiuld the whole thing in java? &nbsp;is coding a java Swing application that works on all these OS's hard? &nbsp;I know there were some problems with Java cross-platform compatibility. &nbsp;If we did do it using java - could we include a small java binary with our installer? &nbsp;so that if a user doesn't have java installed - we could install it for them?<br />
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I guess the dependency on java isn't great... i'd prefer to have it run natively on linux/unix/mac os X. &nbsp;Is there any technology that does run on those three happily?<br />
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Is there anything specifically designed to port VB 6 to Linux or Unix and Mac OS X?
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Hi,

I'm wondering what technologies i should be looking at if i want to port a windows VB 6 application accross to run on Linux, Unix and Mac OSX?

Is there anythign that immediately springs to mind?  Would i have to rebiuld the whole thing in java?  is coding a java Swing application that works on all these OS's hard?  I know there were some problems with Java cross-platform compatibility.  If we did do it using java - could we include a small java binary with our installer?  so that if a user doesn't have java installed - we could install it for them?

I guess the dependency on java isn't great... i'd prefer to have it run natively on linux/unix/mac os X.  Is there any technology that does run on those three happily?

Is there anything specifically designed to port VB 6 to Linux or Unix and Mac OS X?

Building program to work on Linux, Unix and OS X

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Linux

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Linux Distributions

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