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- From: Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk (Ian Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Compiling OWL under Visual C++
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:30:32
- Organization: University of Sunderland
- Message-ID: <Ian.Mitchell.267.001182C6@sunderland.ac.uk>
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- >> Is it possible to take existing Borland OWL code, throw it into the VC++
- >> IDE, compile and run it without modification? I already use OWL and want
- >> to jump ship to Visual C++ && MFC and I'm hoping I can support my
- >> existing code under the new environment.
- >>
-
- >You wouldn't be able to simply take your source code and move it
- >over. Your source is reliant on the OWL headers and DLL's. At
- >the very least you'd need to take the source code for OWL and
- >rebuild it under Microsoft's environment. Even then, I think it
- >would be a difficult proposition, as their releases are never
- >synced up with each other in terms of the C++ features they
- >support. For instance, Borland was out with template support and
- >exception handling well before Microsoft was. If you do find you
- >can easily migrate OWL to Microsoft, I'd be interested to hear
- >about it!
-
- >-Eric Minor
-
- The best strategy might be to raise the level of abstraction a bit. Try
- looking for an OO CASE tool that supports 3rd party class libraries.
- The tool should allow you to model your MFC and OWL stuff in
- separate domains which can then be targeted to separate source files
- and compiled. Unfortunately the domains will almost certainly have to
- be completely decoupled, but it would give you a high level management
- policy. I haven't specifically tried this, but I believe that Rational Rose
- should do the job.
-
-
- Regards, Ian Mitchell
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