Porting a Windows Application

[happyhacker]

I am nearly ready to change out XP to Lubuntu. Has anyone advice on how to port across Roots Magic (they don't have a lunux version per se)? I am especially not sure of the process. The program has an internal DB.

[Bucky Ball]

How to 'port' a Windows program? About the only way you are going to get it to work is to try using Wine, and there's no guarantees there.

PS: You're in luck. See here:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6473

The newest version has a 'Gold' rating for Wine, but using Wine has nothing to do with porting the program to Linux. To do that, you would need to be rewriting code so the program will work natively in Linux with no Wine or anything else to help it.

Good luck.

[happyhacker]

Thanks, I looked at Gramps which imports GEDCOM which my version of Roots Magic suports. So I now deduce I could do an Export, run up live Lubuntu and then install GRAMPS and then see if I can import the GEDCOM file. That way I have an extra option to buying the latest Roots Magic (£20) and running it under WINE.