PowerBuilder 10.5 runtime files on Windows 7 64-bit

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user2207719 picture user2207719 · Apr 3, 2013 · Viewed 9k times · Source

Firstly my original question link regarding PB 10.5 on windows 7 64-bit has been mostly answered in the following link - PowerBuilder 10.5 Application on Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit

Has anyone had any experience with PB 10.5 runtime files on a 64 bit machine?

Currently have a 32-bit application on Windows XP. Client wants it working in Windows 7 64-bit. I know this is a big jump and PB 10.5 has been unsupported for a long time now.

Has any one successfully fooled around with The Runtime Packager PowerBuilder runtime DLLs and got any of the following DLL's wokring in a Windows 7 64-bit system? libjcc.dll libjutils.dll pbacc105.dll pbdwe105.dll pbdwr105.dll pbdwr105.pbd pbjag105.dll pbjvm105.dll pbshr105.dll pbtra105.dll pbvm105.dll

I realize these are 32-bit DLL's but I need to start somewhere and not sure how to tackle this one. Hoping for anyones help or advise.

Answer

Terry picture Terry · Apr 5, 2013

I suspect the most useful answer to you is a completely useless answer.

First point is that PB 10.5 pre-dates Windows 7. Very obviously, any success of 10.5 on Windows 7 is going to rely on Microsoft's ability to provide forward compatibility of applications. (MS's success with providing forward compatibility is stellar compared to other platforms I've used, but has never been perfect.)

Windows 7 was released around the PB 11.0 time frame, IIRC. It took Sybase to somewhere in the 12.0 cycle to announce that they would support Windows 7. Support for a new platform is a good feather for your marketing cap, so a reasonable interpretation of this delay is that they found some issues and had to work them out. (To the best of my knowledge, Sybase never listed those issues in one place, although some probably show up in the bug lists published with each patch.)

I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that if you created a 10.5 application with one line in the application Open event:

MessageBox ("Hello World!", "It's me!")

and deployed this to Windows 7, it would work. Conversely, from what we've inferred from Sybase's behaviour, there exists some combinations and permutations of features that will fail when deployed to Windows 7. Where your application lies in this n-dimensional spectrum of features and complexity is hard to tell.

So, I suspect that your most useful answer to your question is that it doesn't matter if I've had success with a 10.5 application on Windows 7; my experience may not have a bearing on your application's success on Windows 7. There are known risks, even if we don't know exactly what those risks are.

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