Thanks all, I'm aware of Parallels & VMware. I asked about Wine for a reason - I'm cheap. My need for windows is sporadic (Once a season toying with LXStyler, maybe a spring refresher with LXSim). I don't want to buy a subscription based program, like Parallels, and the associated Windows OS. Do you need to buy a copy of WIndows for VMware? It wasn't obvious on their website.

Encouraged by my luck with LXSim, I tried LXStyler. It's close - as I said, I think I've just not got the right libraries. I read on the LXnav site Styler requires .NET 2.0 ... and as I recall there was a VB dependency as well.



On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 3:23:53 PM UTC-6, Darryl Ramm wrote:
Parallels and VMware Fusion are *not* Wine in a commercial or any other real way.

Parallels and Fusion are virtual machine monitors, they let multiple operating systems run on the computer hardware. Wine is a Windows operating system emulator (regardless of if the name tries to say otherwise). Wine has the benefit of not needing a Windows operating system, at the disadvantage of lots more compatibility issues, and well for some things you really want Windows, warts and all.