developerWorks: Porting MFC Applications to Linux

[ Thanks to Irish
for this link. ]

“Still maintaining that legacy Windows application built using
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), but now you have clients
requesting a Linux version? You may have highly skilled MFC
developers on your team, but how do you come up to speed with Linux
development? Don’t panic; this article is for you. With the help of
wxWindows, a portable GUI toolkit for C++ and Python, I’ll show you
how to port a Windows-only MFC application to Linux using a
Multiple Document Interface (MDI) text editor as an example. A
small application like this helps focus the discussion on the nuts
and bolts of porting the framework and prevents us from getting
lost in a sea of code. Complete source code for both the MFC
application and the wxWindows application is available in the
Resources section later in this article.

“The application I’ll illustrate uses the well-known
document/view architecture, since it deals with documents as most
applications do. Even if your application does not use the
document/view architecture, I recommend you read on. You might want
to add this feature as long as you’re already switching the
framework…”

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