Suggestion For Wine Loader

[Jason Couture]

er.. I Just meant to convert PE -> ELF so that the programs could be run 
without wine. Just some *.dll.so files as depends... NM thought your are 
right it would make a good faq.
Scott Ritchie wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:00 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
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>>Jason Couture wrote:
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>>>How hard would it be to introduce a "Re-Compiler" instead of an 
>>>interpreter? To convert PE -> ELF without having the source. The output 
>>>would not have to be a user runnable file maybe just a cache? Possiable 
>>>Speed up? To avoid copyright issues maybe the elf could require the pe 
>>>to run? In my experience JIT Compiling or interpreting is much slower 
>>>than a recompiled program... Let me know what you people think.
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>>Wine is not an interpreter or a JIT compiler.  It is a binary loader, so 
>>it loads a Windows program into memory, and jumps to the start address. 
>>  The program itself will run exactly the same way as on a Windows 
>>machine, expect for the times when it calls an API function in a 
>>"builtin" or Wine implemented DLL.
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>>Mike
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>This would make a nice FAQ entry.
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>--Scott
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