Karl Berry wrote: > In the course of reviewing some possible projects for GNU, Richard > Stallman asked me if there was any active work going on to write a free > software replacement for MFC. I still have writing a mfc42 DLL for Wine on my extended todo list. But for Wine I would focus on the ABI compatibility and *not* on the API compatibility. Means the mfc42 dll would be written in C and not C++. As I don't want to get tainted by looking at the mfc headers/source I wouldn't write any mfc public headers for Wine. I guess you guys are interested in the API and not ABI compatibility; just to make it easy for people to port their stuff to the native non-Windows host.
> From the MFC pages I found on the Wine web site > (http://www.winehq.org/docs/winelib-guide/mfc), which talk about ways of > working with the Microsoft classes and don't mention any alternatives, I > gather this isn't a current goal of Wine itself. > > But still, I figured that this would be the most likely place for any > such project would be known about, or even find possible developers if > one was to be started. Looking on the web, all I found was the old > ofc.sf.net, which appears not to have gotten very far and to have been > abandoned years ago, judging from the source repository. > > The other projects I came across, such as wxWidgets and SmartC++, appear > not to try to be a compatible replacement for MFC, but rather a > functional alternative. > > If anyone here has corrections, additions, suggestions related to those, > I'd be grateful for any replies. bye michael
