On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Glunz Wolfgang wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerald Pfeifer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:39 AM
> > To: Francois Gouget
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Is wine portable?
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > > The target of Wine is the regular Linux user who still needs a few
> > > Windows applications.
> >
> > s#Linux user#user of Linux, FreeBSD, or some other Unix-like OS#
Agreed.
> [Glunz Wolfgang]
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be reality - at least not for the moment.
> Recently I tried to compile winlib under Sparc-Solaris and was blocked
> by the usage of x86 specific ASM code in several source modules.
You need to distinguish two things:
* porting Wine/Winelib to other Unix operating systems, but still on
Intel x86 processor. AFAIK, this is a reality right now. If I remember
correctly Wine/Winelib currently runs on Linux x86, FreeBSD x86 and
Solaris x86. Even if there's the occasional breakage because so few of
us actually do this.
* porting Winelib to another processor architecture. This is not yet a
reality in that you cannot yet just do './configure && make depend &&
make'. But note that this is just as much an issue for Linux/Alpha,
Linux/PPC, Linux/Sparc as it is for Solaris/Sparc or Mac OS X/PPC.
> Further, I just needed some parts from the EMF device but it seems
> so that I have to compile all, because the strong coherence - but this
> is another issue.
Yes. I can see how it could be nice to be able to just pick
individual items and use just that: just DirectX, just the COm
implementation, ... But I can also see how it could be pretty hard to
build such components as independent entities while still making sure
they are properly integrated with the rest.
So the current way it's done is probably the best. And maybe one day,
we'll be able to reegineer things so that we can have our cake and eat
it too :-).
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Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/
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