Jesse Palser wrote:
On 07/07/2010 02:47 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
fernandocarvalho<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then, for the next release of wine, we could make sure that every
new wine release, is
capable of running Visual Studio.
Give us a real good compelling reason why this should be so. We are
busy enough with trying to make 3,000 games and office applictions
run (or more.) There are things in VS that will never work with Wine
and that's just fine. We are trying to get MingWin to work and
Cygwin to work as well. This will allow for building of Windows
executibles from Linux/UNIX and to run them in Windows. That would
be considered a massive step forward.
So we can maintain a certain compliance with key features of windows.
That's why we concentrate on applications over a broad spectrum.
If Visual Studio starts working in a good shape, we can be sure that
many applications
will also work, because a great portion of them are build using
Visual Studio.
It won't and never will. Applications use .NET and other 'features'
of Windows as well. The goal should be:
1. Get legacy applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
2. Get current applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
3. Get cygwin/mingwin to build Windows applications in UNIX/Linux.
4. Get Visual Studio to work in Wine.
The first is mainly done. The second is where a lot of the messages
in this forum come from. The third is a purely developer issue. The
fourth may or may not happen as time goes along. Remember, we are
following the Microsoft path and they have been known to throw a
wrench into the works on a regular basis. And yes, I've been at this
since the introduction of Windows95 to get Win32s applications to run
on OS/2 (Project Odinn...)
James McKenzie
Hi,
I you want Visual Studio to work, don't look towards Wine to do it.
Grab a free copy of VirtualBox and install a Windows to it.
Just my two cents.
Jesse
That's because you are running Windows, not an API. We are working on
getting VS to work, but that takes time. Right now VS2005Trial does
work with Wine, but in a limited fashion.
James McKenzie
