Hi,
In short it wont work. In long see inline.
On 3/24/06, Segin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Since Interix uses PE for it's native
format (running on Windows, duh), Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Would
it reject them being in PE format and having the 'POSIX Layer' attribute
set, or could we hack on a patch to detect if Wine itself is running in
said layer, and load them if it is? Would that even *work*? And how
about detecting Winelib applications? It might get detected as a regular
Windows app, and ... uh-oh... (let's just say it isn't pretty)
Wine should still load its builtin libs first. Your going to need to
add some configure magic to detect interix/SFU and get it building.
The last time I tried I ran in to conflicts with headers. It seems
what Microsoft has for basic types in the POSIX headers does not match
what windows has.
There are several obvious pros: You can test Wine almost fully under
Windows without mingling with Windows's native componets. This would
allow for better and faster compatability tests. We could also see what
unknowns exist in Interix -- Althought not nessessrarly useful to Wine
developers itself, it could mean a whole new generation of applications
which are half-Unix, half-Windows, if the right holes are found.
You can already test any of the pure Win32 Wine dlls if you do a mingw
build. Trying to to a port is a good bit of work.
A port to SFU has the same problems as a Cygwin port. Your going to
have to implement support in ntdll and wineserver for
get/setthreadcontext. For simple Win32 apps that can just be stubbed
but then you have the harder task of implementing or working around
the lack of send/recvmsg. I think there was a hack to emulate it for
cygwin but I never got around to testing it so you might be able to
come up with a creative solution that will work for both targets. My
advice would be to get it working on cygwin first and then port to
SFU.
Thanks
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Steven Edwards
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