At 2006-03-24 22:26 -0500, Segin wrote:
I was thinking about running Wine on Interix (the POSIX layer of
Microsoft's Services for Unix). There are a few apparent unknows:
Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Since Interix uses PE for it's native
format (running on Windows, duh), Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Would it
reject them being in PE format and having the 'POSIX Layer' attribute set,
or could we hack on a patch to detect if Wine itself is running in said
layer, and load them if it is? Would that even *work*? And how about
detecting Winelib applications? It might get detected as a regular Windows
app, and ... uh-oh... (let's just say it isn't pretty)
There are several obvious pros: You can test Wine almost fully under
Windows without mingling with Windows's native componets. This would allow
for better and faster compatability tests. We could also see what
"unknowns" exist in Interix -- Althought not nessessrarly useful to Wine
developers itself, it could mean a whole new generation of applications
which are half-Unix, half-Windows, if the right holes are found.
I am sure this will spark a LOT of debate.
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Bear in mind that SFU won't install on XP Home or XP64. It seems to be XP
Pro only. I haven't tried installing on the Vista Beta (either 32 or 64 bit).
Geoff
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