Clipper on other operating systems

[fbizzell]

Will Clipper applications run on any other operating systems such as Linux?

 

[GriffMG]

You would probably need to think about a DOS emulator such as:

http://www.dosemu.org/

Not tried it myself, but I have heard/read somewhere about someone getting a Clipper app working in a command box, under a windows 3.11 emulator on a Win CE machine!

Probably not very good though!

Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

 

[fbizzell]

Thanks. I will look into DOSEMU. I would be interested in hearing from anyone that has run a Clipper application on a Linux box.

 

[rob444]

Also have a look at

http://www.xharbour.org

This free xbase compiler (win32 and linux and more) can compile native 32 bit executables for your target OS.

Rob.

 

[fbizzell]

Thanks GRIFFMG and ROB444. Rob444, I think you have helped me before on another issue.

 

[GriffMG]

Good luck.

I am a H U G E Clipper fan, but I think it is close to the old sell by date now. MS is slowly killing our ability to run it in the future.

Time to look for your plan B - I like VFP 9 and (to a lesser extent) Alaska xBase++

Regards

Griff
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[fbizzell]

Does Alaska xbase produce windows type applications?

 

[GriffMG]

yup.

and a hybrid thing

Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

 

[TonHu]

I'm more of a xHarbour fan, because of it beeing open source, very good supported (newsgroups on xharbour.com server) and very compatible with Clipper.
It is also available on several platforms, and compatible with several C compilers (xHarbour is sort of a 'Clipper to C' converter, but in a Clipper-like PCode way), and has full OO extensions, and possibility to insert native C/C++ code.
There are several free and commercial graphical extension libraries (GT drivers) to allow Windows or Linux 'native' apps.

AFAICS, xBase++ requires quite severe code-adaptions to get it gooing, but I never really tried (only occasional tests).

Best part to me is, I can produce 32-bit and 64-bit ready executables royalty-free & cost-free ;-)

HTH
TonHu

 

[fbizzell]

I have been wanting to try xHarbour but didn't know where to start. I have been stuck in Clipper 5.2 and would love to try something different, but just looking at xHabour sites have me confused because of that it entails.

 

[lzulli]

Somebody have tried Flagship ? Is it good ?