Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
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JohnW
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Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
Anyone know of a way to take the open source code of a chess engine written in C++ and convert it to C# or even VB? I am just not well versed in C\C++ stuff. Thanks..
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Greg Strong
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Re: Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
Short answer: No.JohnW wrote:Anyone know of a way to take the open source code of a chess engine written in C++ and convert it to C# or even VB? I am just not well versed in C\C++ stuff. Thanks..
Long answer: This would be an almost completely manual process and an extreme pain in the butt. I did this to port the Cutechess-cli code to ChessV. It was definitely time-consuming.
Why not start with an open-source C# chess engine?
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Re: Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
I once tried the reverse: convert a Visual Basic program to C (Steve Evan's ShogiVar). Existing converters did not seem to work on it. So I wrote my own edit script to do most of the conversion automatically, and then I had to finish it by hand. It was a lot of work.
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Re: Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
A google search sent to this site: https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.c ... tails.html
the free version has limitation, I've not tested
the free version has limitation, I've not tested
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Dann Corbit
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Re: Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
I have played around with some of their tools and even bought one of them.
Don't imagine that it will create a working solution (unless the problem is really trivial to start with, in which case you would not be looking at a converter).
What it will do is write out a code base that does not do the job, but is close enough so that you can examine the code and understand the task better.
Don't imagine that it will create a working solution (unless the problem is really trivial to start with, in which case you would not be looking at a converter).
What it will do is write out a code base that does not do the job, but is close enough so that you can examine the code and understand the task better.
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Re: Any way to convert C++ source code to C# or VB?
There are compilers that target an intermediate language, so theoretically this could be done.
Unfortunately for you, most of those actually "compile" the program into C code, which then gets fed into a C compiler. There is very little incentive to write a program that converts C++ into C# or VB (the reverse I could see).
The other downside to a program like that is that it normally outputs code that is intended to be processed by another computer program. Making the code easy to follow for a human being is not a priority.
Now, C++ code can become nearly unreadable, but reasonably written code you should be able to follow. Things like variable declaration, function calls, loops and conditional statements don't differ that much between languages.
Unfortunately for you, most of those actually "compile" the program into C code, which then gets fed into a C compiler. There is very little incentive to write a program that converts C++ into C# or VB (the reverse I could see).
The other downside to a program like that is that it normally outputs code that is intended to be processed by another computer program. Making the code easy to follow for a human being is not a priority.
Now, C++ code can become nearly unreadable, but reasonably written code you should be able to follow. Things like variable declaration, function calls, loops and conditional statements don't differ that much between languages.