I have a windows 8.1 and I need to run turbo/borland c (not c++ or c#). How can I do that?Please don't suggest running windows xp on a virtual machine.
You can install DosBox and run 16-bit MS-DOS applications there.
You can download Turbo C++ from CodePlex, which includes DosBox so you can work on Windows without a virtual machine.
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I am using Linux Mint and I have the Visual Studio 2015 exe installation file.
I use Wine for Windows applications, but it doesn't work with VS.
Has someone successfully installed VS using Wine on Linux Mint?
VS 2015 doesn't works with wine, because VS will require a full Windows stack. Use virtualization for example VirtualBox or VMware.
As the title says, I wrote on my linux machine a small application, which should be able to run on Windows and MAC as well.
Since the application is pure Qt, I was hoping that I just need to install additional Qt compilers for Windows and MAC? Without running any VMs or additional Windows/MAC operating systems.
For the Windows targets, you can use the M cross environment.
I have tested it on ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 15.04, working like a charm for building static Qt4 or Qt5 executables.
I recently downloaded the debian installer iso to use with virtualbox. For security reasons, I mounted it to ensure it was legit. I noticed a file labeled setup.exe. Why would a linux installer be a windows file, and how would the computer be able to run it?
I then decided to look throught the microsoft windows installer. It too used an exe file. How could it run the exe to install windows without windows instlled?
The Debian project has an installer for Microsoft Windows that provides a UI for installing GNU/Linux beginning on a MS Windows platform.
The Windows kernel can be loaded from disk and once it is loaded, like on install, it can start running a .exe file. For similar reasons Linux is an elf format binary. This is how a "Live" disk works, it loads the kernel and then loads up the entire OS including window manager from disk.
To your first question :
I bet you are running VirtualBox on a Windows client right? So there is nothing wrong with using a windows file :)
Problem:
I was trying to install Ansys 15 64-bit on my Windows 8.1 64bit. In prerequisite check, it did not detect WIC as installed. The installer worked on my other laptop (also Windows 8.1 64 bit).
Solutions Tried
I knew WIC comes preinstalled and there is no installer for Windows 8.1. (A setup for XP was available...tried to install it anyway, unsuccessfully).
So, I tried updating my windows, checking system using SFC /SCANNOW etc.
Questios
1.How can I detect if WIC is installed on Windows 8.1?
(A similar question for XP was asked. Its solutions don't apply here)
2.How to install WIC on Windows 8.1? (I don't want to reinstall Windows)
I found the answer after going through my other laptop's registry. It seems that many programs (like Ansys etc.) determine the availability of WIC by the presence of the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WIC]
"NoRemove"=dword:00000001
Once I added this key the Prerequisite Check program detected WIC as installed.
I received a src archive from a friend who develops Qt apps on Linux on Kdevelop IDE. Is it possible to load the Kdevelop project in Windows in some IDE ? Is there a Kdevelop port on Windows without Cygwin/Msys etc ? Are there any workarounds or I should I have to install Linux and take charge?
Update : I visited the page as mentioned in the below answer, but there's no Kdevelop package in the KdeWin installer . See here
KDevelop 4 will also be available on Windows (together with a lot of other KDE4 software). It is currently in beta, but you can download a Windows installer. The installer also lets you install other KDE4 software and should come with the QT development files you will need to develop QT applications.
AFAICT, there is no port to Windows of Kdevelop4 and Kdevelop3 was run with cygwin - which, IMHO, is not really a robust solution.
It would probably be easier, and better, to install a Linux distro in a virtual machine and go at it from there. If you don't need access to Windows, you could just install a Linux on a separate hardrive and/or partition.
Install linux on virtual machine such as vmware or virtual box.