How to deploy an existing Powerbuilder application to work in on a UNIX machine?

Question

Is there a way to compile Powerbuilder applications for cross-platform use? We made it that the application would work on a windows server for online use, but we recently migrated to Solaris. We're running into an issue that when the server reboot, the applications stops functioning because it no longer has a valid display environment. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to compile it to run straight command line via unix without a display? And ideas would be much appreciated.

None, i'm not too familiar with Unix.

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Answer 1

Way, way, way back you could (supposedly) compile for UNIX but that has been gone for at least a decade or two. Not a UNIX guy either, unless you can find some sort of Windows emulation application to run on your box you will have to re-write/engineer it.

Answer 2

PowerBuilder relies pretty heavily on the Win32 class libraries, so there's not really an easy way to compile a PowerBuilder application for use with UNIX. You basically have two options; find some sort of emulator or system call translator like WINE to allow execution on your server, or wait for the newer version of PowerBuilder to come out from Appeon that will allow compiling PowerBuilder objects to .Net Core, then writing a .net core wrapper to call into the PowerBuilder generated objects through a command line or web app.