From PC to MAC - Urgent

[Jeff Barnes]

Hi,

Can someone tell me what is involved to take an application from a FWH program to a FiveMac program?

I have had a request from a client that currently uses my app (FWH) on a PC but now wants to run it on a MAC.
I tried to get him to go with Fusion on the MAC but he will not go that route. He would like it as a real MAC application.

Any info you can provide would really help.

This customer is getting ready to start a research study so I need to figure something out ASAP.

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide

[Antonio Linares]

Jeff,

If you need an inmediate conversion of your FWH Windows app to Mac, then I strongly suggest you WinBottler as the way to go:

http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ It is a free product and works really fine

FiveMac lets you create native Mac OSX applications but you can not take a FWH app and recompile it as it is, as it is not fully compatible neither as mature as FWH. FiveMac for now is fine for new Mac OSX developments.

[Colin Haig]

Jeff

I use a Mac Book Pro with Parallels - this allows a virtual machine running windows , you can
toggle back and forward between each os with one key - you can also start a windows app from the
mac task bar - and there is also an option to make your windows apps look like mac apps.

Cheers

Colin

[Marco Turco]

Hi Jeff,
as Antonio suggested, the Wine solution runs well and it is free
I am using it since two years to provide a Mac solution to some customers waiting a full compatible FiveMac.

[Jeff Barnes]

Is the Wine solution something that an end user could easily install or would I need to do it for them?
(I don't have and Intel based Mac to do testing)

[Antonio Linares]

Jeff,

It is an easy process but it has to be done on the client Mac computer, as it installs Wine and some other stuff (WineBottler does it all).

But the result is great

[Jeff Barnes]

Excellent. I will see if I can use my friends Mac to test