> On December 1, 2002 11:36 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > So that is why we "never" will support 100% Win64 source > compatibillity > > on 64bit platforms. We can (and presumably) will support a > LP64 variant > > of Win64 but it won't be 100% source compatible. > > I don't think it's nearly as bad as you make it. In the Wine sources, > we'll just use explicit types that don't depend of compiler switches, > while Winelib apps will just use the -flong-int flag, and get > what they > expect. Of course, they'll have to use our msvcrt lib instead of the > native libc, but that's largely true today anyway (for > different reasons).
That solves the libc problem however compiling with -flong-int also means that it will be impossible to call other libraries, which means that it will be a little hard to use Unix specific library to have extra functionallity under Unix. But sure having a -flong-int flags is nice but it doesn't solve all problems. Perhaps would be good to push for its addition even now, it might take a few years before standard GNU C installation supports it.
