Porting ActiveX control - Choices

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What all tools are available for porting Windows-based Active X control which uses DirectX, to Linux platform? I have explored to some extent and zeroed onto two options - WineLib and JAVA. Which one is better choice? Are there any other options available?

Posted 11-Feb-11 20:39pm

Rajesh G Manwani from Mumbai

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Emilio Garavaglia 12-Feb-11 3:04am

Wine is the porting of the windows API to Linux. Java is a programming language.

Since ActiveX is three/four abstraction layers above windows, with Wine it should work (but performance may be a problem, and also some not supported windows APIs!
Java may mean a complete rewrite of the active X. That may be a longer task, but not necessarily difficult.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2011-07-04T04:17:00

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Java is better because its more portable.

Posted 4-Jul-11 4:17am

KarstenK