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Porting Borland C++ Builder to Qt

I have to port a project from Borland C++ Builder 5.0 under Windows XP to Qt 4.7.1 using g++ under Windows 7/mingw. The libraries and command-line utilities are done, and now I have to tackle the GUI applications, which use Borland VCL.
Can anybody recommend any tools or libraries to make this task easier?
Does anybody have any experience of this?

Edited to add: Well, I took the bull by the horns, and implemented the GUI from scratch. And I have to say, the commentators were right: I can't see any way of using the existing Borland GUI to ease the process.

Solution

  • There are several big differences between VCL and Qt that will make an automatic conversion process quite difficult.

    • Qt uses signals and slots and inheritance where VCL uses events.
    • VCL components use absolute coordinates and Qt uses layouts. Of course, you could use absolute coordinates also with Qt, but the GUIs would be quite awful then.
    • VCL's TListBox and TTreeView classes are quite different from Qt's View and Model classes (although you could use QListWidget and QTreeWidget instead).

    I guess it is much faster to design totally new GUIs with Qt than to create even a mediocre VCL-to-Qt converter. And the code will be much easier to maintain. I suggest that you take one VCL form of medium complexity and recreate that with Qt. After that you can make an estimation of the total recreation work. Also you will have a better understanding about the feasibility of a conversion tool, which you most probably would need to make by yourself.