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The evolution of software technology leads to continuous migration of software components and applications. Particularly, most software applications in applied science and engineering are for desktop computers and there is a need to migrate them to mobile technologies. This kind of migration faces many challenges due to the proliferation of different mobile platforms. New programming languages are thus emerging to integrate the native behaviors of the different platforms targeted in development projects. In this direction, the HAXE language allows writing mobile applications that target all major mobile platforms. Novel technical frameworks for information integration and tool interoperability such as the Model Driven Development (MDD) can help to manage a huge diversity of mobile technologies. A specific realization of MDD is the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)proposed by the Object Management Group (OMG). In this work, we propose a migration process from C/C++ software to different mobile platforms that integrates MDA standards with HAXE. C/C++ is one of the most commonly used programming language in science and engineering domains and numerous legacy software components written in C++ require to be modernized. On the one hand, the proposed process follows model-driven principles: all artifacts involved in the process can be viewed as models that conform a particular metamodel, the process itself can be viewed as a sequence of model-to-model transformations and all the extracted information is represented in a standard way through metamodels. On the other hand, HAXE easily adapts the native behaviors of the different platforms targeted in development projects enabling extremely efficient cross-platform development, ultimately saving time and resources. The proposal was validated in Eclipse Modeling Framework considering that some of its tools and run-time environments are aligned with MDA standards. The paper includes a simple case study, the migration of a C++ application, "the Set of Mandelbrot", that allow us to exemplify the different steps of the process.