Re: Re: supporting closed source operating systems?

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:25:51AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
OTOH, do we want to open the door to people running mingw-compiled binaries under wine? That seems like it might be a whole 'nother can of worms, though.

You can actually run the executables under wine directly.  In fact you
just run them.  Assuming you've set up the ~/.wine/config file so that
paths to any non-standard DLLs can be found, then ./virsh.exe does the
right thing.

Yeah. I'm just wondering if widespread use of that would be a desirable or undesirable outcome. Here's a hypothetical:

Let's say that Google opensources Picasa. Do we want to build and run that Windows app under wine using a cross compiler or do we want to wait/start a project to port the program to native Linux APIs? I can see benefits to both sides.

Setting up DLL paths correctly when mingw-runtime is installed was one
thing I was going to look at.

Cool.

-Toshio


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