Wine on Windows

[David Fraser]

Serenity wrote:

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>>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...
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>Well, put short, my goal is to be able to run (some) Windows executables on
>Windows.  I'm not bothered about GUI display.  My goal is actually to write
>code to catch certain types of calls, and then take actions based on those
>calls.
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Hmmmm ... if you want to just catch calls, you may find you want to 
create your own dlls which replace the Windows dlls and delegate calls 
you don't intend to catch to the original Windows dlls. What calls do 
you want to catch and why?
At the moment Wine probably isn't going to help you here - the dlls need 
a lot more separating done - at least the lower level ones (user32, 
kernel32, ntdll etc), and although a lot of the higher level ones can 
compile and link, I'm not sure that anyone's tested replacing Windows 
dlls with them. Having said that, if you want to try something, any help 
in getting Wine going on Windows would be appreciated, but it takes 
coding skill.

David