FoxproW application on Windows 10 1

[Rajesh Karunakaran]

Dear Friends!

One of my clients was using Foxpro application which I believe was compiled in Foxpro for Windows as I see FoxproW.exe in the application folder supplied by him. Now, he has upgraded most of his systems to Win10 and the Foxpro application refuses to run on that. Is there any way to run such an application in Windows 10 (32 or 64)? Can DosBox help on this?

Thanks
Rajesh Karunakaran

 

[Olaf Doschke]

As far as I know FoxproW.exe is Foxpro for Windows itself, not just a VFP runtime module. So your client is using a legacy version of Foxpro for Windows...
The runtimes for a FoxproW compiled EXEcutable are FOXW2600.ESL, FOXW2600.ESO and FOXWX260.ESL, not FOXPROW.EXE.

That's like running a VFP9 application via VFP9.exe. If the client has enough licenses of VFP, well, you can run source code just fine, it's enabling to maintain, change, extend the application where it runs, but even inhouse developers of a client I work for only install built EXEcutables with runtime DLLs (which compare to your legacy case ESLs) to end users. It would be quite expensive and also an organisational challanege to maintain a few hundred VFP installations.

VMs should help, not sure which Windows Version to best use as guest system, but why should DOSBOX help for a Windows product? Where did it run before? Win XP perhaps?

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Rajesh Karunakaran]

Dear Olaf,

Thank you for your reply!
I think I did not explain my query well. I have not tried DosBox. I have read (I think), DosBox will help running Old Dos applications in Windows which don't run otherwise. So, I was just asking whether that would help or not.

As you said, I will try a VM.

Rajesh Karunakaran

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Where did it run before?

with this question I didn't meant DosBOX, I meant the application you talk about. On which Windows Version did it run before? That's a version you can put in a VM to reuse that application.

In the longer run that client was quite obviously not understanding ways to work with VFP and distribute a compiled application, if it was distributed with FoxProW.exe, but that's a separate topic about legal issues, not about technical issues.

Bye, Olaf.