2008/12/30 DanKegel <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > oiaohm wrote: >> Sorry David Gerard you could be the only person trying to get wine to work under Cygwin. > I think it's a cool idea. At the very least, building and running > the wine unit test suite under Cygwin could be useful. > And various individual Wine DLLs could be useful on Windows, > especially the direct x 10 implementation. Newer versions of Windows fail to support old applications that are still supported by Wine. So Wine for Windows would supply useful backward compatibility for users. Wine is already a better Windows than Vista in a lot of cases ... Wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows Note I'm also trying Wine on MinGW and Wine on Interix %-D I note there's also a page on how to cross-compile Wine PE DLLs on Unix: http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilingDLLsUsingMingw The Wine download page includes a 2.5-year-old zip file of Windows DLLs from Wine 0.9.14, apparently built using this. > So it's not at all crazy... You wouldn't be saying that if you were trying the things I'm trying to beat this into working ;-p - d.
