Wine on Windows

Vincent Béron vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca
Thu Feb 27 10:03:18 CST 2003


David Fraser a écrit:
> Serenity wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Right, I've been Googling this one up, and I've found some 
>> information, but
>> it's a few years old so I'm not sure if it's current...
>>
>> Has anybody had any success compiling and executing Wine on Win32?  I 
>> know,
>> it seems a bizzare concept, but I have legitament reasons to want to use
>> Wine on Windows.  There are some emails dating back to 2000 online 
>> saying it
>> compiles on cygwin, but I'm not sure if this is still the case...  Plus,
>> ideally I'd be looking for a native port...
>>
>> Any directions would be great
>>
>> Ta
>> Serenity
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> You can compile it successfully on cygwin but not run it yet. If you're 
> really interested,
> search the list archives and read them. If you have a specific question 
> or a goal, say what it is,
> otherwise I'm not sure what to say...

IIRC, compiling is mostly OK (Steven?), but linking is usually a 
problem. At least for dlls. If you need some other parts of Wine (binary 
loader, wine server, etc.), then I can't help you more.

Vincent




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