QCharts now runs on Linux!

October 12th, 2005 by eyal | Filed under Techie, Trading Plan, Trading Resources. | Print This Post Print This Post

Another step closer to a Microsoft free shop - QCharts now works on my Linux! With a bit of mucking around it now loads up.

What you need is to install:

1. Wine HQ
2. Mozille ActiveX Control installed on Wine from here: http://crossover.codeweavers.com/redirect/mozcontrol
3. msvcirt.dll and mfc42.dll copied over from Windows’s system folder to Linux Wine’s /windows/system
4. Download and install the normal QCharts

after a couple of seconds of finger crossing.. bob’s your uncle! (Thanks goes to a fellow trader named Chris who helped out with this).

With IB’s TWS, QCharts and OpenOfice.org Calc (Excel) running on my Linux I am going to be spending very little time on M$ Windows.

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2 Responses to “QCharts now runs on Linux!”

  1. zadok | 23/12/05

    can you be more specific on how you got qcharts to work with wine!!!!!!!!! I am having no luck in the 3 months of trying, I can’t even get ie6setup to work!!!!

    Thanks,

    Jason

  2. eyal | 23/12/05

    Hi Jason,

    You’ll need to start with a fresh clean install of wine, it doesn’t work with IE installed. Install qcharts as usual and then install microsoft trutype fonts and mozilla activex from here: http://crossover.codeweavers.com/redirect/mozcontrol

    Hope it works for u.

    Fyi, I moved away from using QCharts on linux because the hotlists behave differently. If you’re not using hotlists then there should be no problem.

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