EMN2016 wrote:I downloaded and installed HMG version 3.4.2 on my Windows 7 64 bits. I would like to make a few changes on an old Clipper software and recompile it.

As you are probably aware, Clipper apps being 16-bits cannot run on 64-bits Windows 7. For it to do so, it must be converted to 32-bits by using the Harbour or xHarbour. I had previously show how to do so in3-part series.

The extensions of the files are:.fmt,.scr and.prg. Is there a way I can import this files to HMG, or must I rewrite the whole software?

Pure Clipper applications are character mode, whereas HMG has only a GUI front end. It is true that HMG includes Harbour, and that Harbour is a superclone of Clipper that may include character mode libraries, but HMG does not include these character mode libraries, so I don't see how HMG could compile a Clipper app. You may want to try MiniGui () instead, which is similar to HMG and does include character mode libraries and other support for building character mode apps. Within MiniGui, look at BATCH Compile.bat, which has a /C flag for compiling in console mode (character mode). MiniGui is primarily intended for GUI apps and does not include any character mode samples.

My program Data Globe () is a character mode app that has a batch file for compiling in MiniGui. Dragancesu is right that you may have a FoxPro app. In that case, Harbour probably won't work. But I think that is unlikely, since.fmt files were obsolete in FoxPro. Other dBase clones may have allowed.fmt files too, such as DBXL and FoxBase.

These also probably won't work with Harbour. There were some GUI libraries for Clipper, such as Clip4Win and FiveWin. These are not compatible with HMG and MiniGui, but they did not use.fmt files, so this is also unlikely. I also have old Clipper 5 programs, 24 rows, 80 columns as it was in DOS, nothing graphic. I compiled them like this: 1) Modify in Windows the environment variable PATH. I use Windows 10 Home.

Goto SYSTEM, click Advanced System Settings, click Environment Variables, click PATH in the System Variables, click Edit, insert at the bottom a new line C: HMG MINGW BIN (C: HMG is the folder where I installed HMG.3.4.2.Setup.exe) 2) Create a bat-file to compile your old DOS Clipper program. I included an example in attachment NT.ZIP. Detskogo sada gen plan 1. The BAT-file has only one line.