Strange, Windows app working in Linux?

[GeoTrail]

I was messing around on my backup drives and was testing to launch a few test programs I wrote for Windows some time ago. And some of them actually work perfectly. I haven't, that I know of, installed any emulators or anything like that. Just launched the program and it works.

Here's the code of one of the programs that works, it uses Windows API of all things

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Result = MessageBox_(0,"This is the text","This is the caption",#MB_CANCELTRYCONTINUE|#MB_ICONINFORMATION|#MB_DEFBUTTON2)



Select Result

	Case #IDABORT		; Abort button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDABORT"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDCANCEL		; Cancel button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDCANCEL"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

; 	Case #IDCONTINUE	; Continue button was selected.

; 		Selected$ = "IDCONTINUE"

; 		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDIGNORE		; Ignore button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDIGNORE"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDNO			; No button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDNO"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDOK			; OK button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDOK"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDRETRY		; Retry button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDRETRY"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

; 	Case #IDTRYAGAIN 	; Try Again button was selected.

; 		Selected$ = "IDTRYAGAIN"

; 		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Case #IDYES			; Yes button was selected.

		Selected$ = "IDYES"

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)

	Default

		Selected$ = Str( Result )

		MessageBox_(0,"You select " + Selected$ + ".","Result",#MB_OK)		

EndSelect





End

;- End of program



; IDE Options = PureBasic v4.01 (Windows - x86)

; Folding = -

; Executable = API_MessageBox.exe

[WishMaster]

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user@linux:~> /usr/share/purebasic/compilers/pbcompiler /your/test/file.pb

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PureBasic 4.00 - Beta 1 (Linux - x86)
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Loading external modules...
Starting compilation...
Error: Line 1 - MessageBox_() is not a function, array, macro or linked list
user@linux:~>

[GeoTrail]

No I have already compiled the code in Windows. The compiled exe is for Windows, but it works here.

Try this http://robert.geotrail.no/API_MessageBox.exe

[Trond]

it's probably run with wine.

[GeoTrail]

Aaa yeah I searched in the package manager and Wine Windows Emulator is installed. Pretty cool that it works though. Many Windows installations works too. Just tried a few just for fun.