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Can you turn a small .EXE into a .APP for iPhone and iPod Touch?

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 08:10 PM

I am curious as to whether I could turn a small (under 10 MB) .EXE into a .APP that would be compatible with my iPod Touch? I suppose it isn't as simple as having a converter due to the fact of making the .EXE work with the Touch Screen. Anyway I could make the .EXE into a .APP and have it work with the touch screen without too much complication. if not, I would still like to know how, hard or not :D

I could SSH it to my iPod Touch to try it out ....
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:25 AM

Since you are using 'EXE', it seems reasonable to assume that you are speaking of a Windows PE format file. Creating an app bundle is easy enough to do manually (and XCode makes it brain dead simple). Aside from differences in the ISA (x86/x64 vs. ARM), even if it was a WIndows Mobile .EXE for ARM, the file format and OS are quite different. In short, without writing some sort of VM or emulator [an onerous task at best], it is impossible to simply re-wrap the EXE and turn it into an app bundle.

If you have the source code, it would still be difficult to port it as the API and even programming languages are different.

You might have better luck trying to find a functionally equivalent application for the iPhone or writing one.

Cheers!
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