Crystal C/C++ is now commercially available for all UNIX, LINUX, Solaris and FreeBSD platforms with the Wine emulation environment.
Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as all native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.
while still using the Windows applications you depend on.
that can also leverage the UNIX environment to its full extent.
Wine makes it possible to access Windows applications remotely, even if they are a few thousand miles away.
Windows applications from any X terminal.
Wine can also be used to make existing Windows applications available on the Web by using VNC and its Java client.
Wine is Open Source Software, so you can extend it to suit your needs or have one of many companies do it for you.