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I would like to port a large Win32 DLL to native linux in C++. I don't think I can use Wine for a DLL like mine, because users of the DLL would then also have to be in Wine, and then they would all whine... As a Windows C++ programmer, I don't (yet) have any familiarity with the GUI front-end services in linux, but if it logically runs on anything like win32 message loops, fonts, bitmaps, invalidation regions, getmessage( ) calls and so forth, it should be a fairly straight forward remapping of my existing code.

So what am I looking at here, a remap or a rewrite? The path for such things must be well worn by now.

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    The path is Wine, and other similar emulators. They're already doing what you are attempting.
    – Robert Harvey
    Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 0:31
  • Ok, so my DLL sits on top of Wine, that sits on top of linux. User code sees my api/DLL, and doesn't necessarily care what it sits on. I like it--no remap, no rewrite, just new scripts and rebuild. Thank you.
    – Chris Cochran
    Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 1:51
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    Hopefully it's that simple. :)
    – Robert Harvey
    Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 1:59

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Why not consider using Qt or some cross-platform library to solve this question?

Does your solution have GUI related core or just processing functions? Pure C/C++ cross-platform coding would be enough in this case.

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  • A C++ cross-platform framework that provides consistent front-ends, file handling and networking, while giving my multithreaded concurrency services free reign, would be a much better solution than Wine. I am looking into Qt now, can you name any others that I should also consider?
    – Chris Cochran
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 20:02
  • There is wxWidgets also GTK+ and SDL. These I know that are widely used. You may also take a look on this Stack Overflow question to know about other alternatives to QT
    – Alexandre Marcondes
    Commented Oct 21, 2012 at 14:59

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