Running a FWH app on a Mac OS X

Marco Turco · Post by **Marco Turco** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:31 am

Hi all,
just to inform you all that it is possible to run a FWH8.10 app on a Mac OS X computer simply installing the crossover plugin (www.codeweavers.com) without changing a single line code.

The same plugin permit to run a FWH app on a Linux OS also.

We have at the moment only few customers that required us a Linux/Mac OS X version so the crossover plugin can be a cost effective solution without the need to mantein a version for each platform.

driessen · Post by **driessen** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:59 am

Marco,

That is fantastic news.

Thanks for your information.

driessen · Post by **driessen** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:12 pm

Marco,

I just had a look at the website you mentioned.

One question to an answer I didn't find : can a FWH-application be installed manually ? I have the impression that an installer is needed. Is that right ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Kleyber · Post by **Kleyber** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:25 pm

Marco,

That is a FANTASTIC news!!!! Now the question is: What about the third-party libraries like: Fastreport, RmChart, and others... would run in Linux with Crossover?

Best Regards,

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:36 pm

We have been using CrossOver for a long time on Mac OSX :-)

In Linux, you can use Wine, that it is free. In fact, CrossOver uses Wine source code.

There is no need for an installer. In both CrossOver (OSX) and Wine (Linux) you can simply execute the Windows EXEs.

Marco Turco · Post by **Marco Turco** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:44 pm

Kleyber wrote:Marco,

That is a FANTASTIC news!!!! Now the question is: What about the third-party libraries like: Fastreport, RmChart, and others... would run in Linux with Crossover?

Best Regards,

My FWH apps use Fastreport as print engine and no problems have been reported at this moment under MacOS+Crossover.
Unfortunately I haven't informations about Linux+Crossover.

Kleyber · Post by **Kleyber** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:46 pm

Thanks a lot, Marco. I will try it with our Linux server here (it is Ubuntu). And I can inform all of you my results.

Best regards,

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:47 pm

Here you have Visual FiveWin (Windows EXE) running on Ubuntu using Wine:

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:07 pm

Here you have Visual FiveWin (Windows EXE) running on Mac OSX Leopard using CrossOver:

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:12 pm

Also, please notice that with both solutions you are NOT using the standard Linux and Mac OSX GUI controls.

So, though they are a very good solutions and will save you a lot of work, they will not look as 100% native Linux and OSX apps.

Kleyber · Post by **Kleyber** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:25 pm

Hi Antonio,

Yes, I agree with you. But if the app runs fast and all the third-party libs runs ok, I don`t see any problem to use it. Anyway, is a very good option to run our apps on Linux.

Regards,