What must the application developer do before a map will run on an operating system other than Windows?

Changing component character sets to NATIVE addresses character encoding translation, not the platform compatibility of the compiled binary, and alone would not allow the map to run on another OS.

Translating literal values into a target character set handles data encoding concerns but has no bearing on whether the compiled map executable is compatible with a different operating system.

WTX map source files are compiled into a binary (.mmc) that is specific to the target operating system and hardware architecture. The 'Build for Specific Platform' command in the WTX Design Studio compiles the map against the correct runtime libraries and instruction set for the intended non-Windows platform. Without this step, the compiled map will not execute correctly on the target OS.

The compiled map output already uses the .mmc extension by convention; renaming the file extension does not alter the binary format or make it executable on a different platform.