Can I install Microsoft Visual C++ SP1 on Ubuntu?

I think the answer is "no," but hoping it's "yes!"

If not, could there be an equivalent for Linux?

I'm not much of a C++ programmer or anything, I just want this because it's a prerequisite for DOSBox.

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Re: MS Visual C++
By: Aaron Thomas to All on Mon Jan 04 2021 05:50 pm

Can I install Microsoft Visual C++ SP1 on Ubuntu?

I think the answer is "no," but hoping it's "yes!"

If not, could there be an equivalent for Linux?

I'm not much of a C++ programmer or anything, I just want this because it's prerequisite for DOSBox.

QT Creator is fine for C++. HP's printing division uses it heavily on Linux. I think they also use Visual Studio Code for Linux.

Visual C++ is listed as Windows only in Wikipedia

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QT Creator is fine for C++. HP's printing division uses it heavily on Linux. I think they also use Visual Studio Code for Linux.

Thank you! I'll give it a try.

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Hello Aaron!

04 Jan 21 17:50, Aaron Thomas wrote to All:

I'm not much of a C++ programmer or anything, I just want this
because it's a
prerequisite for DOSBox.

This Dosbox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

I don't see why this would require VisualC++.


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I'm not much of a C++ programmer or anything, I just want this because it's a
prerequisite for DOSBox.

This Dosbox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

I don't see why this would require VisualC++.

Good point! I see my mistake now. I'm following someone's instructions on how to use doorway.exe, which calls for DOSBox, but I think these instructions are aimed for Windows users - probably Windows users need Microsoft Visual C++
2010 SP1 in order to use DosBox.

I should be fine as long as I have DOSBox installed. I was overthinking it.

Thank you!

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Hello, Aaron Thomas.
On 06.01.21 00:34 you wrote:

Good point! I see my mistake now. I'm following someone's
instructions on how to use doorway.exe, which calls for DOSBox,
but I think these instructions are aimed for Windows users -
probably Windows users need Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 in order
to use DosBox.

As far as I know, you can install dosbox simply with apt on Ubuntu.

Here's the article on this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DOSBox

The instruction is pretty straightforward.

I should be fine as long as I have DOSBox installed. I was
overthinking it.

Do you do it for oldschool gaming? I also was thinking about this a while ago, but actually I would prefer Dendy or similar (it was my first console :) ). And GNU/Linux has package for this also!

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Do you do it for oldschool gaming? I also was thinking about this a
while ago, but actually I would prefer Dendy or similar (it was my first console :) ). And GNU/Linux has package for this also!

Thanks. Installing DOSBox should be no problem.

I'm installing DOSBox so I could use a program called Doorway (doorway.exe)

And I'm going to use Doorway to run an old text-based DOS game as a door on my BBS. (Dopewars!)

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06 Jan 21 00:34, you wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

because it's a
prerequisite for DOSBox.

This Dosbox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

I don't see why this would require VisualC++.

Good point! I see my mistake now. I'm following someone's instructions
on how to use doorway.exe, which calls for DOSBox, but I think these instructions are aimed for Windows users - probably Windows users need Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 in order to use DosBox.

Yes, though I suspect it's even simpler than that, and that DOSBox on Windows just requires the Visual C++ 2010 runtime library, eg.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=14632

"Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)"

Which is a 5 MB download that installs a few DLL files into the Windows system folder.

I should be fine as long as I have DOSBox installed. I was
overthinking it.

For the record, a few years ago Microsoft released "Visual Studio Code" which can be used to write C++ programs (and many other languages, eg. Python) in Linux. Though it's not the same product as Visual Studio. And if you're just starting out in coding, you definitely don't need it, especially not in Linux, and especially not to use DOSBox. :-)

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if you're just starting out in coding, you definitely don't need it, especially not in Linux, and especially not to use DOSBox. :-)

I know, I was reading the instructions for Doorway and the very 1st instruction said to download and install MSft Visual C++, and I just stopped there and started wondering how to do that in Linux.

Then further into the instructions I realized it was just a pre-requisite for Windows users in order to use DoxBox, and I've already got DosBox running under Linux so I should have just ignored that step. I spazzed out.

But now for my next trick, I'm going to try to find out if I'll be able to use a fossil driver with Linux - because it appears that a fossil driver is a prerequisite for Doorway.

Am I being stupid again? lol I don't know if there's a fossil driver for linux but I'm about to try to find out..

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Re: Re: MS Visual C++
By: Aaron Thomas to andrew clarke on Sat Jan 09 2021 05:35 am

Am I being stupid again? lol I don't know if there's a fossil driver for linux but I'm about to try to find out..

Yes, bnu or x00 will work for you in those cases where a fossil is needed. I use x00 with dosemu.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 01-09-21 05:35, Aaron Thomas wrote to andrew clarke <=-

But now for my next trick, I'm going to try to find out if I'll be able
to use a fossil driver with Linux - because it appears that a fossil driver is a prerequisite for Doorway.

You'd run the FOSSIL driver (BNU or X00) inside the virtual DOS environment you're using


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Yes, bnu or x00 will work for you in those cases where a fossil is
needed. I use x00 with dosemu.

Alana & Tony, thank you. This makes sense to me now.

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You'd run the FOSSIL driver (BNU or X00) inside the virtual DOS environment you're using

Thanks!

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