newbie question

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"James Mckenzie" <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>>can somebody tell weather it is possible to run NT service on Wine,
>>especially written in Delphi VCL(TService)

Just run it and see how it goes. If you face some bugs - open a bug
report in the Wine bugzilla, preferably with a test case, since you
can replicate one using your source code.

> Services do not natively run on Wine startup.  You have to start
> them and then leave at least one window open.

That's not true.

> If your service depends on direct hardware access or the use of any
> special device driver, it will not work in Wine as it does not recreate
> all of the functionality of Windows.

That applies for all Windows applications, not just services.

-- 
Dmitry.