Nick, Getting a big app to run on a different platform requires expert level skill. I am willing to say that by the time you gained that skill you would be able to write the application yourself and make a tool even better suited to your needs. Might I recomed instead that you look at the numberios grapics tools available and see if some of them suit you needs - just as written now. Blender, povray, GIMP, ... I am sure that other memebers of the list may be able to recomend a close functional match to lightwave. Mark Browne Top-posted - because I'm lazy! _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Nick Scholtes Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:12 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Re-building Apps from Source Okay, well, setting noob aside. What would it take to get Lightwave for Windows code running stably on Linux? I understand that this isn't going to happen anytime soon. But if you say, "you need to know C programming, and such and such," then I can start studying what I need, and I have a goal in mind. (A goal I've had to some years and now have some direction on how to achieve it.) To be able to run all my apps on a Linux 64bit system, and not have to deal with Windows at all anymore would be a dream! Die, evil bastard OS monster! Die! *Sniff* Haven't you ever had a dream? A dream so big you just couldn't contain it? Well, you must believe, my son! You must believe! /cheesy-whatever the hell that was ; ) C'mon! Throw me a bone! Nick On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:23:28PM -0500, Nick Scholtes wrote: > Can't remember exactly. It was a couple years ago. I read it a few times > when researching Linux. Is this a myth? Is it possible to do? If you are a n00b, then rebuilding from source should not concern you. It's right up there with rebuilding the engine and transmission of a car. "Closed source" means exactly that, that you don't have access to the source, outside of the owners of the software. And lastly, there does not appear to be a version of Lightwave for Linux. Getting the Windows/MacOS code to run on Linux is equivalent to moving the transmission and engine between two different kind of vehicles. To stop milking of the car analogy, you can think of submarines and fighter jets. Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080930/5d79a3bc/attachment-0001.htm