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Foxpro on Android
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21/09/2011 15:43:49
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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>Hi,
>
>I recently stumbled on a posting mentioning something about the possibility of Foxpro being able to run on Android. I thought at first..... terrific but was unable to find anything more on it. Anybody know or hear something of this and when it might actually happen ?

Was it a post here, or somewhere else? If the latter, do you have a URL?

VFP runs only on Win32. It won't run natively on Android, which is based on Linux.

If you're talking generally about "Foxpro running on Android", there are a few possibilities:

- An Android Remote Desktop/Terminal Server client that lets you control a VFP session running on a remote Windows server

- A VFP-language interpreter, or VFP workalike that runs natively on Android

- Installing WINE or similar on Android, and then running VFP within that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17469201#post17469201 . I haven't heard of anyone successfully running VFP9 in WINE, personally I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

- Eventually Android hardware may become powerful enough to support virtual machines, in which case you could install a Win32 OS on a VM and run VFP on that
Regards. Al

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