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[Windows RT Development and Hacking] domboy:
Understood. I guess my suspicions about winscp were correct, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask anyway and see what more knowledgeable programmers would make of it. Thanks for explaining in detail the issues in porting it!!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
If this Player could play mkv-files like "mobile.HD media Player". then please try to port it.

The mentioned Player Plays 1080p 10GB+ files without any Problems...

it has only 2 disadvantages:

-not free

-cant get full-screen Video Output through hdmi if not duplicated. if you set your tv as Extended Display you will get 1080p Resolution BUT the Video will only Show on the RT...

THANK YOU SOO MUCH
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Shotgun4:
Program to think about

i was hoping you could try and bring over a program called Torchmate CAD or let me know if that is even possible of running on windows rt... I use the program as a teacher in class and the students make projects to sell and donate the money to charity. since the school is getting the students RT Tablets to work on in class, I was hoping I could get this program working on Windows RT. Again its called Torchmate CAD , please let me know if it is or isn't possible , if you think it is then let me know and I will send you/post the program to download ,

Thanks :)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Try to drag the app window from its top (similar to the gesture used to close the metro app) and drag it to the second display. This would move the metro app to that display, TV in your case.

This works on desktop Win8, but may be problematic if both screens have different resolution.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jimmielin:
I believe this app is not open source, making it impossible to port. Please read the guidelines for porting first :)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Devildog78965:
Would this program be suitable for the work your students are doing? And if it is will it be portable also this program is open source. http://librecad.org/cms/home.html
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Shotgun4:
Wow perfect , yes I have just tried it and tested it out it dose connect to the plasma table. now if it can some how be ported over to Windows RT , the program will be put to very good use. Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Useful yes, but I dont think it will connect to your plasma table, or rather the tablet won't. No drivers for USB serial, parallel or proprietary USB devices, my guess is that the plasma cutter fits under 1 of those categories (unless its the old generate G-Code externally, stick on flash drive and carry over to cutter).

Sadly getting librecad to compile under MS tools is an absolute pain in the rear apparently. It also uses inline x87 assembler for floating point maths, this is an absolute no go for us. So you won't be getting librecad any time soon either.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Link947:
i really don't know if this will fit the requirements of the thread starter but i'll give it a try... please ignore me if it was stupid to ask.

my request is if there's a way to port a n64 emulator to windows RT. ive not seen any till now out there and i dont know why.

for example project64 ( http://www.pj64-emu.com/blog/ ) as it would be open source (from what ive read at the second thread in that blog)

could be also any other emulator as long as it's a n64 emulator

is it too much work? or is it just not possible? ive googled for n64 emulators for windows rt and couldn't find anything helpfull

im a noob and i am very sorry if i have buged someone with my request.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Shotgun4:
The program just needs to be able to rum on Windows RT, from there the designs created would be saved as dfx files and transfered by external storage to one main computer that is connected to the plasma table. And if the program is open source and C++ it should be able to be ported right?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
As I said. It has x87 assembly (x87 is actually the floating point unit in an x86 processor) which cannot be ported to ARM.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] nakijun:
my best wish is free pascal compiler for windows RT

Lazarus and free pascal is power full things to make programming.

but they didn't support arm-win32 environment. -_- ;;

if i can, i would convert free pascal compiler first!

after than, i can comile Lazarus IDE.

this is fantastic thing...

i can use surface rt for my working!

thanks for reading.

regards
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Shotgun4:
Well thanks for looking into it
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
It works perfectly, thank you so much sir! Even with diffrent resolutions (1366x768 and 1920x1080)

On my testings 2 Players were able to Play 1080p-10GB+.files without Problems:

hd.mobile media Player and powerDVD. Both trails...

On ffmpeg0.6ARM it is unwatchable slow. Does anyone know a free solution? (or perhaps advanced Settings for ffmpeg, or a better codec)

Cheers

Blade
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=1455617]nakijun[/MENTION]: We haven't even managed to get a compiler for something widely-used like C ported... Pascal is a pretty niche language these days. It actually probably wouldn't be too hard to port the compiler itself, but it wouldn't do you a lot of good because it would still only produce x86 binaries. It would be necessary to modify the back-end code generator, or to port a cross-compiler that already targets ARM/NT (I doubt any such Pascal compiler exists).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Lazurus exists for the raspberry pi (ARMv6hf), but of course thats not THUMB_2. Closest you will find I bet though.

However, there do exist a few .NET pascal compilers. There is an outdated one by borland (delphi, although .NET support on current versions is outdated) and I found a codeplex site aiming to write their own pascal compiler for .NET in C#. You also have Oxygene which targets .NET. However the 2 working ones are closed source, of those 2 one is outdated and the other is more heavily pascal inspired than actual pascal, neither actual compiler will run on .NET either (they are supposedly C or something). Then the 3rd isnt complete.

I entirely agree that pascal is niche in todays age. There is no real usage scenario for it, it doesnt get used in education. Only reason to know pascal now is probably for maintaining legacy code, even then there are quite a few different and incompatible dialects.

Of all the languages which should be prioritised for having a native RT compiler, I dont think pascal is one.

EDIT: apparently LLVM has a degree of THUMB2 support. But thats still pretty useless to us. http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2011-09-16/EuroLLVM2011-LLVMplusARM.pdf (its about half way through, I have no idea what page, I just control-F'ed "thumb")
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
LLVM would be ideal as a compiler back-end, if it can generate THUMB2. It already builds under MSVC and can target NT,; hopefully targeting NT/THUMB2 is easy enough.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Perhaps someone could have a bit of a peek and see whats what. I think thumb2 support may be limited to linux, but who knows, if it could be coerced into doing windows thumb2 then that would seriously open some doors to us. Someone should at least have a bit of a look and see how viable it is.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
MirandaIM's IRC works in a pinch, but it's less than optimal. Most All-in-one IM clients IRC implementations blow; Trillian, Pidgin, and Miranda all have mediocre IRC support. The only non-IRC targeted app I've ever used with what I thought was a half-decent client was Opera. [sarcasm]Maybe we can port that?[/sarcasm]

As far as actual portable ones, the one I'd like to see ported over is HydraIRC. It builds with MSVC, but the only version it builds on is MSVC6. I played with it for a few minutes quite a while ago and had no luck, I seem to recall hitting a wall on getting one of it's dependencies to build (an XML lib, iirc). Not to mention that it requires boost and the like too.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Hydra is a joke to build. I've got the binaries for it already. The problem is that its license does not permit anyone to redistribute it in any form, compiled, or otherwise.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Maybe I should've spent more than 10 minutes looking into it.

You may be able to get ahold of the maintainer, or you could always consider it abandonware and ignore the license (ethically dubious, I know.) It's been years, but at one point I was able to contact him in their IRC channel.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
This cannot be ported without GTK, which itself has about a dozen cascading dependancies. Unfortunately, I have most of those ported, with the exception of libffi. Libffi is above my knowledge of ARM asm at this point. I'm slowly warming up to ARM asm however, so I suspect I'll knock this over eventually, but right now its not done. As such, I won't be able to port ekiga at this time. Sorry.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Hydra IRC

I've emailed the developer and requested permission to release a Windows RT compiled version. Sadly, I don't expect a response.

I'd love to be able to call it 'abandonware' and just release it.. however the HydraIRC wiki was updated as recently as April of this year.. so its hard to justify. Having said that, the last change I can find to the source code was 4years ago. Just trying to do my part to respect the developers license.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Devildog78965:
Any news on calibre?

Sent from my Nokia Hammer Phone
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hahyun6:
Battle for Wesnoth?

The best open source game of all time!!!

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Also, NVDA, an open source screenreader may also be awesome. Just to have stuff read to me (word files, PDFs, Etc)

http://www.nvaccess.org/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Wesnoth was actually discussed (even on the official forum) months ago; at the time, nobody was willing to put forth the effort. We have more ported libs now, though; it might be practical.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ericerk:
Gimp?

http://www.gimp.org/

(Last mention of this I saw is February, Maybe the day has come for it?)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Was mentioned about a month ago. Not doable right now. GTK.

You have paint.net for now and thats about it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Requires GTK (in fact, I believe the GTK was originally written *for* the GIMP). Probably possible to port, and would be useful; not trivial at all, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
Has anyone tried VS2013 RC?Does it support C99?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bigsnack:
Wait we have Paint.net for RT?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092348

The big list. Search next time. It has its own thread somewhere (probably page 1 or 2 of this forum section) but I'm not in the mood for making things that easy this morning and you might find something else you want on that list.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Wesnoth is doable I believe.. but it is not trivial. I may take a loot at it again.

As for NVDA.. I couldn't find the source code.. but perhaps I've missed it?

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
http://community.nvda-project.org/wiki/AccessingAndRunningSourceCode

Had to click through a few links to get to it, they don't exactly serve up details of where its stored on a plate. At least once you know where it is you can obtain it easily.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Going to eat my words on this one.

I have all the libs for Wesnoth ported except Pango. Pango relies on glib -- specifically gobject -- which relies on libffi.

libffi requires significant effort and is basically a hurdle for lots of ports as I've mentioned before... :(

I really need to just port libffi and be done with it..
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
You may try to port the old Wesnoth builds. Long time ago I've compiled it for Windows Mobile 5, and I don't remember that I had much trouble there. Probably it used less dependencies.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Another wishlist item: Java.

I very very briefly looked at OpenJDK's code, and iirc, the biggest hurdle is going to be that it assumes Win32 == x86.

Well, that and I suspect it only compiles with GCC.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah, porting the JDK or even the JRE (with its JITs and its platform hooks and all that jazz) would be awesomely useful - IKVM is just not really there yet - but it's simply not going to be a reasonable-sized project, I suspect. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I looked at it long ago (shortly after the jailbreak was released) and concluded that building it for RT would be a nightmare.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] callmechewy:
Any possibility of getting PSXE or another PS1/2 emulator ported to RT?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
PS2 hardware might be a little too recent for good emulation. PS(1) *should* be emulatable.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
PS2 is sometimes awkward enough on full x86 machines with dedicated GPU's when it wants to be.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] callmechewy:
Fair enough. I'd be a lot more interested in PS1 anyway. Here's hoping!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I think someone looked into one and found a few issues, but they might be resolvable.

The surface certainly has the performance for it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] nX3NTY:
Since Max Payne were available for Android I'm hoping to see it on RT :)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
And for the 100'th time. BIG BOLD TEXT IN THE FIRST POST

Max payne is closed source. We cannot port closed source apps. Nor is android windows, not really sure what correlation max payne for android has with max payne for windows RT.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] merkelbeek:
i would love to have xbmc ported to arm for the surface rt this could bring great oppurtunities

more info about this program found here

source code here

Hope to get a reply about this!

thanks in advance
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] rydroid:
i also vote for this

YES PLEASE Tony Hawk with Xbox controller, would be awesome.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
It has been discussed, please search for it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] merkelbeek:
is it possible to port then?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] nX3NTY:
Oops, really sorry man :(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Well, if you followed the recommendation to use search you would get your answer. Not yet.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
As I previously said, it has been discussed. Search for it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] merkelbeek:
what about dropbox?

i can install it as a app but i want to use it like on the computer its much easier...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
double for you.

a) Closed source application. We require open source. There is a reverse engineered python source file for dropbox out there yes, but as the dropbox license is closed source it would technically be illegal for us to repackage it for your usage on RT (you could attempt to run it under the python RT port yourself though).

b) Use the forum search. It has been discussed before. Hell you were already told to use the search for xbmc, how on earth you forgot this time around...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tonystuck:
Any luck porting growl for windows??? It's on Google code.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
OSX only. Only applications that support growl are also OSX only. This as far as intelligent suggestions go falls into the same category as "Closed source", it also fits in with the rule for this thread that it must be portable by one man.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tonystuck:
There is a windows port available. Can't post a link for some reason but do a search "Growl for windows Google code" and it's there.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Looking at the windows port, its all C# running on .NET (like all C# applications) with winforms. It would probably run on the RT natively as you do have the full .NET framework on RT. Wouldn't even need recompiling if not for the installer. I haven't got the time today but if i was to look at it tomorrow and I could have it running on windows 8 without issues, it would probably run on windows RT unmodified, no recompile even (thanks to .NET being the same on all platforms essentially).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] PhonicUK:
If you're looking for one to do before I get around to it, UNetbootin would be a useful tool to port.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] :
It would be awesome if the new Firefox Aurora for Windows 8 preview got ported over. Since it actually has the touch interface and looks so awesome, it would be worth it to port over.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Firefox goes along with chrome. We've been over that one half a million times.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] avensun:
Free open-source disk encryption software

great job!

sT r u e C r y p t ourcecode can be found here

http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2

thanks!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Already been mentioned. Use forum search next time. Large amounts of truecrypt are in x86 assembly, not easily portable without some expertise in both x86 and ARM assembly, alot of understanding of what the assembly is doing and alot of time. Not really a reasonable porting candidate.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] avensun:
I got it ! thanks for your reminding!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] steamdnt:
I've been trying to port Python 3, But I can't seem to get it to work. If anyone wanted to be super awesome, It would be super helpful. :D
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Libffi being a sore thumb by any chance? Python 2 had to be compiled without support for it (breaking any library which uses native code extensions).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] steamdnt:
libffi has always been a probem, I had it building without that library. My main problem I think comes from my setup, and I think it comes from converting the VS2008.proj that is on the python website to a VS2012.proj.

Regardless of what I do, I can't seem to get it to build, It just flatly refuses.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] cameronm:
Any chance you can get the open source version of red alert working?

http://openra.res0l.net/download/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
This was mentioned before and I did take a glance at it (not a serious one as I dont own an RT device). Its a .NET application. I don't know what 3rd party libraries it needs for graphics (they may or may not be problematic) but otherwise windows RT has a full .NET runtime built in. No porting required, that was something I said at the time but no one else looked into it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] viz124@gmail.com:
Porting Checkpoint SSL Extender

Hi.

It's will be dilated if some one can port the checkpoint ssl extender.

:good:

Thanks t\yalall
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Please read the rules:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] domboy:
It doesn't seem to work. I downloaded the windows version on a Windows 7 machine and did a "portable install" which I assume means everything is put in the install directory. I then copied that to my Surface RT and tried to run "OpenRA.Game" which is what the shortcut created by the installer points to. "This app can't run on your PC" gets displayed in that ugly color bar across the middle of the screen. I assume this means it is compiled for x86?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] chefchuck:
Clearly Silverlight is closed source, however moonlight is open source.

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

Development on it seems to have slowed to a crawl, however I have an app critical to my industry that was made w/ silverlight :(

Even if moonlight is ported, I'm not sure that I could work the way that it's required by the neutered IE as a plug-in...

On that note, is there a way to incorporate add-blocking or ghostery type functionality into IE?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
The game itself isn't compiled for x86. Its a .NET application. Instead of compiling into raw machine code specific to ARM or x86 (or anything else) it compiles into what is known as bytecode, this bytecode is kinda similar to a new CPU architecture (which usually would be near impossible to implement in hardware actually) and run in a virtual machine - or an emulator if you would prefer to call it that (technically wrong but I guess more people are familiar with the idea of an emulator than a virtual machine, its a similar concept either way). The bytecode itself is the same on all platforms. The only thing that needs to change for ARM or x86 or whatever is the actual virtual machine (in this case the .NET Framework), in this regard you luck out as .NET4 is built into windows RT. Java also uses the same principle.

I took a look, I have a feeling the websites version of OpenRA might be compiled under .NET3 which isn't included on RT. It might be possible to compile it for .NET4, I haven't tried. I don't know if it uses any native code libraries either which would also be required for it to run on RT.

Moonlight sadly falls under the rule 4 of too complex. Development hasn't just slowed to a crawl, it was full on scrapped before it ever even reached alpha quality. Chances are that your industrial application will not run under moonlight (you can test this yourself on a linux PC if you wish, or if you don't have a linux PC, use virtualbox to virtualise a linux PC on a windows or mac PC). Microsoft aren't updating silverlight much further either so even that is also about to become abandon-ware (probably why it isn't on RT actually).

Ad blocking is built into IE. If you enable tracking lists there is a list known as the easy-list which blocks most ads often more effectively than the adblock plugin for chrome and firefox does.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] domboy:
Ahh, that would make sense. I thought I read somewhere that .NET can still be compiled for a specific architecture, it's just not the default setting in VS. I didn't think about the fact it might be an based on an older version.

I can second this. Our ERP system at work uses Silverlight for its client, and I use a Linux workstation as my primary desktop. I never had any luck with my attempts to get it to run with moonlight...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] filfat:
I dont know if it is possible to compile *anything* on Windows RT, but if it is I would be really thankful if you could port this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/devkitpro/

I am Currently using that to develop WiiCraft. A Minecraft Clone For The Nintendo Wii/Wii U

Thanks :D
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
It says "The windows variants are built with MinGW." so nope.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] filfat:
yeah, as i thought ;)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
Don't know if it was requested, but what about Thunderbird? It compiles in VC (at least looking at mozilla site).

Or, there's any way to debug .net apps? http://www.emclient.com/ is written in dotnet, but all I get is "Can't reserve memory (file is too big or corrupted)" :(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I havent checked thunderbird, sometimes the application itself compiling isn't enough. Any external libraries it uses also need to be able to compile under visual studio. I'll let someone more knowledgeable give the yay or nay to that (it may well have been mentioned before, I havent checked).

emclient is closed source so sadly if it doesnt run on your RT as is then there is nothing we can do.