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  1. Jan 8th, 2009, 08:23 AM #1
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    is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    hello Sirs..

    is VB6 app will run to all OS's?

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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    There are various things needed for a VB6.0 program to be able to successfully run on Vista, and I don't think it can run on Linux.

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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Thanks for the warm Welcome and for the information kababayan.

    how about on MacOS?
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Not sure about that, I have no info regarding MacOS.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Moved To General Developer

    VB6 apps, natively, will not run on macintosh machines, but, they can be ported to both Macs and Linux.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    I doubt it.... VB6 needs the VB6 runtime libraries, and as faras I know, those are only available on MS Windows.

    do you need something that is cross platform?

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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    The Mono Framework is supposed to work on Macs and Linux, so you could write .NET applications instead.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    VB6 will not on 16 bit Windows either - only Win95 and higher. So, if any of your clients still run Win 3.1 tell them it's about time to upgrade.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome
    I doubt it.... VB6 needs the VB6 runtime libraries, and as faras I know, those are only available on MS Windows.

    do you need something that is cross platform?

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    Yeap there are platforms to run it on either linux or MacOS.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Quote Originally Posted by KiwiDexter
    Yeap there are platforms to run it on either linux or MacOS.
    then you need something other than VB6.
    .NET can be cross platform, as long as it is written right, and you can use Mono for development (which I recommend, as it's goign to be the only way to compile it on the non Windows platforms anyways (As faras I know)).

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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome
    then you need something other than VB6.
    .NET can be cross platform, as long as it is written right, and you can use Mono for development (which I recommend, as it's goign to be the only way to compile it on the non Windows platforms anyways (As faras I know)).

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    Exactly so hence then mention of "platform". Been a while since I looked at the cross OS release thing as we're pretty much standard behind a web interface currently rather than desktop.
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    Re: is VB6 run to all Operating Systems?

    Quote Originally Posted by dee-u
    There are various things needed for a VB6.0 program to be able to successfully run on Vista, and I don't think it can run on Linux.

    Welcome to the forums kababayan!
    There is a program called "Wine" (something like that!) for running Windows programs in Linux.

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    http://lifehacker.com/396590/run-win...x-with-wine-10
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