can i create a program that can convert windows applications to linux?
Friday, June 12th, 2009 at
09:52
i was wondering if it is feasible to create a program that will convert a windows application into linux. to be specific i need to create a program that will enable a windows antivirus run in a linux environment..help me please..i'm cramming already..thank you so much…
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Filed under: Linux Applications
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WINE has its limitations and by no means will run all proprietary applications. WINE offers a windows compatability layer and should only be used if no native Linux alternatives are available. That said here is a list of windows applications that will run using WINE http://appdb.winehq.org/
Here also is the Official Ubuntu WINE Documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
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Not really. At best, you can use WINE to emulate a Windows Environment. But why would you want to run a WINDOWS antivirus on a Linux machine? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Although I agree with the other answer, and wonder why on earth you would expect the same viruses used to attack Windows to also be used under Linux, the answer is "Yes".
What you need to do is get the source code for the Windows program, then use an analogous compiler running under Linux to recompile. For example, if the Windows program is written in C++, you would recompile the code using a C++ compiler under Linux. But you will need to do some cleaning up since there are O/S and machine specific instructions that are not common to both platforms.