Delphi to Visual C++ converter?

Sort of following on from the 'Bollocks' thread I've been toying with
the idea of converting Xananews to VS C++ so I can bugfix/maintain it.

I've had a little look at delphi2cpp but its far from perfect, and I
think by the time I've manually re-created all the dialogs, etc, and
cut & pasted the code it produces in, it'd be just as quick to write XN
from scratch.

Does anyone know of a good delphi to VS C++ converter that'll convert
the resource files too and produce a half decent VS C++ project?

 

Blimey. It's been a few years since I touched Delphi. Certainly, at the
time, the answer was no - though things may have moved on apace.
Learning the Delphi idiom may be easier

 

I doubt such a thing exists due the lack of (as far as I know) a port
of Borland's Visual Component Library and other Borland-specific class
libraries to VC++ . You'd be better off grabbing a copy of Turbo C++
from httt://www.turboexplorer.com/cpp, which uses the same class
libraries as Delphi.

Although it may be easier to download Turbo Delphi from the same site
and work with the existing source (it's not a massive jump from C++ to
Object Pascal - especially if you're just maintaining existing code and
don't intend implementing huge swathes of new stuff).

 

Actually, looking at the source for XanaNews, it uses a bunch of
additional third-party components. I'm fairly sure that one of the
restrictions of the free "Turbo Explorer" downloads of Delphi and C++
is that they won't import third-party components, so you'd need a full
copy of them.

I do vaguely remember some stuff about a sneaky method for importing
components into the freebie versions, but that's all getting a bit
messy, isn't it.

 

Another possible option, for someone dead-set on a newsreader
compilable with VC++ might be the now-open-source Microplanet Gravity:
http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

For a VC++ programmer, making that work how you want it to might be an
easier option than trying to fit the XanaNews source and all of its
dependencies into something other than a full install of Delphi...

 

Yep, I vaguely remember grabbing the free "cover disc" version of
Delphi something but it didn't do add ons as you say without some
persuasion.

And after that persuasion I'd be up shit creek sans paddle if I
distributed the compiled software.

 

Now thats an idea.

I'll download it and see what its capable of already, cheers.