"Sean Kormilo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your perspective. Is this largely because WINE is not an > emulator? I would have thought it possible to have WINE itself compiled > as a 64 bit application (such that it can pick up and use 64 bit linux > libraries), but still represent itself as a 32 bit environment for the > windows binaries. But, you know way more about it than I do - if you say > that isn't possible, then I won't bother starting.
Well, it would be possible, but it would require adding a translation layer for every single API call, which would be a huge task for very little benefit. It's much easier to do it at the syscall level. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
