My Visual Basic App.. Will it work ok with WINE?

[Daniel Foesch]

>I have a simple application that was made in VB that uses UDP via the
>winsock control. Will this app run ok in linux etc.. with WINE?
>
>What about the setup application associated with the app (made with the
>built in packaging wizard)?
>

Usually installation programs run without any problems.  As for the
application...

You will more than likely get a crash, which will complain something about some
DLL.  What you should do is copy that DLL from a windows installation that WILL
run the application, into your ${wine}/windows/ or ${wine}/windows/system
directory.

Basicly, just try it out, because you'll never know until you try. There are a
number of reasons why it might not work, and we can't really give you a good
idea of if you'll have problems or not, but what we can do, is help you when
you try to get it running.

But, it's my belief that one should not have ANY problems running a VB program
so long as you have the correct DLLs. (since VB programs are pretty... well,
windowsy)

Daniel "Krach" Foesch
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