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EscapeE · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: Porting Windows applications

Users of our PCL/HPGL viewer application http://www.pclviewer.com report that they have made it work on XANDROS/CROSSOVER.

We would like to make it work really well!

Is there any technical info. on how to be a well behaved WinApp?

How do I go about getting on the XANDROS approved app. list?

judyz · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

Glad to see that your app works under Crossover Office with Xandros. I am amazed at how quickly this list is growing! You can have your app certified by Codeweavers for use with their Cross Over product by following this link.

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/certify/

While Cross Over comes buddled with Xandros it is a seperate product that is available for sale on it's own for use with other Distros as well. This means that becoming one of their certified apps opens up a pretty large community.

You may also want to try your application with Wine the free program that Crossover is based on. If it also works in Wine you can submit your application to be listed on their database as well by following the "Submit Application" link on the left in their "Application Database" window.

Thanks for helping to make linux even better.
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scott · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: wrapper?

So far I haven't had much lick getting the apps I need to run in Crossover.
I maybe to far out of the box, but do you think a wrapper could be made to run some of these apps. I seems to me that maybe you would get better use of the power of Linux.
I'm a user not a developer. It's just a thought I had.
Thanks Scott

Ed Richards · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject:

Scott,

What apps are you trying to get to run under Crossoveroffice? COO is a very rapidly maturing product with version 5 soon to be released. I have been using it since version 2 I believe and am continually amazed at the number Window$ application that it can successfully run, many of which are not explicitly supported.
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scott · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: apps

Ed: I need to run Corel draw to be able to move to Linux full time. Crossover will load Corel but it can't open it. I get a message I'm missing a dll file.
Scott

jimallyn · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Porting Windows applications

aldube · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

I'm running Corel Draw Select Edition (Version 7.467) under Crossover Office 4.1; it took really long to install and looked like it failed to install, but I just waited a little longer and then it finnished installing; Corel Photopaint & Corel Draw work really good.

Certifying Windows applications to run under Crossover Office seems like a weird way of porting applications to Linux; however, I guess it's no weirder than porting Linux applications to Windows via Cygwin.
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shadowbratt · Xplorer Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Location: USA

I recently loaded Xandros Pro, After several unsucessful tries of installling different versions of Corel Draw 11, I finially noticed what was missing on one of the tries...it was Microsoft OEL components.
So I installed that and IE in a win98 bottle and after that I was able to install and Run Corel Draw , with no problems.
I believe I will be able to load and run version 12 but have not tried yet.

redrum · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:17 am Post subject:

If you check out www.mainsoft.com , you can port your app fairly easilly.. Dunno about the cost for the software though.
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geekydude · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Porting Windows applications