colcar08 wrote: > So I need Wine running/started in order to run a winelib application i.e. my windows application that is ported to solaris/unix via compilation with winelib? Something like that. Only you don't run Wine on it's own. You ran windows apps/winelib apps with it. You can think of Wine as a library (with some extras) not an executable. colcar08 wrote: > This presents some difficulties since wine does not compile on Solaris, Sparc. Therefore I need to get wine to compile on Solaris in order to proceed further? Correct.