"D. C. Sessions" wrote: > In <slrn9vq8ou.qe4.harri.haataja@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI> Harri J Haataja posted: > > > Sanand Patel wrote: > >>Does the latest winelib compile and work on the Sparc? Are there any special > >>patches/instructions for this? > >> > >>Are there any mirrors that have the precompiled binary winelib for Sparc? > > > > A few words sprint to mind: > > "Why on earth?" > > Because some companies have internally-generated applications that depend > on Windows libraries, and WineLib would (theoretically) allow them to > get them off of WinTel machines and onto (e.g.) Sun servers. > > A highly admirable objective, IMHO. > Especially if used as a pilot project (Wine as RAD port.) In fact, this has been a stated objective for a long time. I rather think that in-house apps are most likely to be done in a higher-level system, such as Delphi (note that Borlad is/has ported it to Linux) or Visual Basic, or else written using fairly standard console-mode semantics, but no tool can hurt (right?). Hrrm... I've been doing a lot with SPARC assembler this semester. I should probably give this a try... Is it crazy to write a Windows program to be a graphical interface to an emulator of the SPARC CPU, and then port it to the SPARC using Winelib? -- DLL
