Masahiko Hayashi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into good way to port Windows applications
> to Linux and hopefully any other Unixes.
>
> I'd like to know about questions below.
> If anyone answer them, I'd appreciate it.
>
>
> 1. Can I use Winelib to port commercial application
> whose sources will be not disclosed ?
Yes.
>
> 2. Is it possible to link Winelib statically with an application and distribute it ?
It is possible, but probably better to distribute shared object
libraries - static linkage in Wine is broken at the moment.
However, I think the important point of your question is:
can we distribute our own version of Wine with our app,
and the answer is yes.
>
> 3. In case that I don't use Winelib and use Wine instead
> to provide commercial application,
> can we include Wine with the application to distribute ?
Yes
>
> 4. Does porting with Winelib still need to compile MFC ?
> libmfc42.so still doesn't work ?
Yes. You can compile the MFC source. It takes a bit
of doing, but can be done. The winemaker tool is the key.
>
> 5. Can Winelib deal with other languages besides English
> such as Japanese and German ?
Yes.
>
> 6. How is printing ? Can we print from ported application like Windows ?
Yes.
>
> 7. Is the license condition of Winelib is as same as the one of Wine ?
Yes.
>
> 8. It might be a problem compiling MFC on Linux and
> distributing it with an application
> because of MS's MFC license condition, right ?
> But there are companies have already ported their applications with Winelib.
> How did they avoid this type of problems ?
Their are a range of versions of MFC; most of them allow
redistribution of MFC. For example, the most recent service pack
of Visual C++ 6 allows for this.
>
> 9. Though I think I have read most of part in winehq.com and
> have checked newsgroups using groups.google.com,
> if there are good information about porting by Winelib I'd like to know.
Probably the best source of information is the Winelib user
documentation. There is a copy at
http://wine.codeweavers.com/docs/winelib-user
you can also find those same documents under the documentation directory
in the main Wine source tree.
>
> 10. Is there good way to provide Help system
> with ported application like Widows Help ?
There is a winhelp executable under the programs directory.
However, our customers generally prefer to switch to an alternate
style of help, such as HTML.
Jeremy White
CEO
CodeWeavers, Inc.
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