Utility: Dom3 Unit Maker v1.07

[Gandalf Parker]

lch said:

Which one? I see that he hands out the source code to his programs, too, so I could take a look at it. Even though he's programming in BASIC. Who the hell still programs in basic?? [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

Heehee. You dont want to get me started on this. But a short answer is that I probably caused that. Most of my cgi's, linux scripts, windows batch files, and map utilities still get written in basic. Its an important part of my administration tools. Not nearly as dead as people think. (by the way, dominions was originally written on an Atari in Basic altho it is in C now).

I had a quick look and I see that he already has some form of support for *nix in his code, although he missed a couple of occasions. I haven't programmed BASIC in, like, ever, but since it's little more than batch programming it shouldn't make any trouble. Just say what you need.

Yeah thats what I think happened. Ive been meaning to write him about it. Its on my list. My long LONG list.

Well, as I wrote in the other thread it already works with Wine. You said that you don't want emulators on your server or something, but if you didn't know what Wine stands for: WINE Is Not an Emulator. It's an alternative implementation of the Windows API, you should rather compare it to Mono: open source implementations of native Windows DLLs. paradoxharbinger could probably even compile his Windows program for *nix via winelib without any changes to the source code, too. Although I'd encourage a rewrite under C# because it looks like a really nice programming language with lots of useful classes.

The mono thing convinced be because of the command line example you gave. I just run the command with mono in front of it. My impression of wine was that you ran wine, and then ran things in that environment. But it has been a long time since I looked at it so I might be foggy on it.