Porting a Windows NT C++ app to XP platform
Porting a Windows NT C++ app to XP platform
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I'm currently working on a program that was written in Bordland builder 3 !!! I need to export the source code to Visual C++ .net 2003 and then make the program run on Windows XP, because it was originally written for Windows NT and now all the terminals are being upgraded. How do I port the program to XP platform?
Does .net take care of the porting or is there a program that does it?
I have to focus on the further feature development and the scedule is extremely tight.
Thanx a million.
Does .net take care of the porting or is there a program that does it?
I have to focus on the further feature development and the scedule is extremely tight.
Thanx a million.





RE: Porting a Windows NT C++ app to XP platform
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RE: Porting a Windows NT C++ app to XP platform
By the way what happened to M$ C# (sharp)?
Steven van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr
RE: Porting a Windows NT C++ app to XP platform
Pragmatically, your best bet might be to purchase a new (or newer) copy of C++ Builder and recompile it. Even if the software costs $1k, that's peanuts compared to a typical engineer's time. Where I work, the standard engineering rate (including overhead) is $70 per hour. You'd spend that much by less than two days of your time trying to port it to some other compiler product.
The next time I need to write a Windows application, I'm going to do it in wxWindows using MinGW. Then I'll be able to port it easily to Mac & UNIX, plus being able to develop it on a Linux box.