Turning VB programs into mac apps?

[Dazzlegod]

Hey, i made a game client for a group of people i know in visual basics 2010 Express Edition and one of the people in the group wants it but he has a mac. I was wondering if there is anyway to change the .exe into a file that can run on a mac.

Can anyone help me out here?

[James Rose]

Look up the Mono Project: www.mono-project.com

Good luck.

[mattking]

Have the person in question install Mono and then use MonoDevelop to build the application as a mac version.

[Dazzlegod]

Thanks i will give it a go

[Southern Patriot]

Depending on how complicated the program is, he might also have luck running it as is with Darwine (WINE for OS X) or Crossover Mac.

[Dazzlegod]

I tried Mono and gave the visual studio one a "try" but it came up an error. It is a .vsix (visual studio extension) file.

Sorry i clicked the linux version. Will sort it out now. :L

[Dazzlegod]

Guys mono doesn't work for me. Any other good like turning windows programs into mac apps programs?

[Xilo]

  On 24/05/2011 at 21:25, Dazzlegod said:

Guys mono doesn't work for me. Any other good like turning windows programs into mac apps programs?

Post your errors, and what you are doing.

Unless you are using XNA or other WINDOWS ONLY libraries (like winforms), mono will work.

[Dazzlegod]

Its just difficult to use. I don't even know how to start creating my app. And whenever i search up "how to use mono to make mac apps" on google it comes up "Monomac" and all guides for it is on mac so im figuring thats just the mac version of mono. :L

[Japlabot]

You will need a Mac to compile a Mac application. If it is just a small project, you might have better luck getting the person who is trying to run it install (as already suggested) darwine/crossover mac, or also Parallels Desktop/VMware Fusion and leave it to the user to set one of these up themselves. Rather than going through the trouble of porting the application to Mac, these applications will help the user run actual windows programs on the Mac without a recompile.

[Xilo]

  On 24/05/2011 at 22:02, Dazzlegod said:

Its just difficult to use. I don't even know how to start creating my app. And whenever i search up "how to use mono to make mac apps" on google it comes up "Monomac" and all guides for it is on mac so im figuring thats just the mac version of mono. :L

You said you already have your app created in Visual Basic 2010 Express.

Here are the steps.

1) Install Mono for Mac.

2) Copy your solution folder to your Mac.

3) Open the .sln file.

4) Compile and run.