On 3 May 2010 15:10, oiaohm <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Something most people are not aware is that all Unix/Linux/BSD kernels cannot load dynamic binarys at all. > Instead depend on little user space programs to it. Like ld-linux.so.2 yes it hides as a library. > Where windows dynamic loader is part of kernel. > Hello major issue. Wine can work since it replaces the Unix/Linux/BSD dynamic loader. > Under windows it requires adding a windows subsystem that would be a completely different design. Then you would have two subsystems fighting to load the binary. Not fun. I've added your explanation to the wiki page :-) http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows#head-865d47787ef70e5a51c975c6542dc6215fd79480 - d.