Access and Mac

[susanmgarrett]

Is the only way to run an access application on a Mac the PC emulator?

Or does compiling the application as a stand-alone using the VBA
Developer software produce an application that could be run on a Mac?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

AFAIK, the only way is through an emulator.

The VBA Developer software doesn't produce an executable: it just packages
the application with a run-time version of Access (and the run-time is the
same executable as the full package, but severely limited in what it can do
through registry entries).

I don't believe Macs can run executables created using VB either.

 

[John Nurick]

I don't believe Macs can run executables created using VB either.

That's right: they can't. The nearest thing so far to a Mac version of
Access is 4th Dimension, which is also available for Windows. It's
conceptually similar, being a relational database management system, and
has a Basic-like programming language.