idea: display drivers

Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger at gmx.at
Sun Feb 7 08:42:40 CST 2010


> The problem is that there can't be any Objective-C code in Wine. At all.
> Or C++. Or Fortran. Or Pascal. Or Ada. Or Java. Or C# or VB. Or any
> language other than pure, procedural C.
Alexandre has said that you can put objective C code into wine, but only if this code is properly abstracted from the other parts of the quartz driver. E.g. by a simple binding wrapper that does nothing but wrap Objective C to C bindings. The requirement is that somebody can read and understand the Quartz driver without knowing Objective C.

The biggest obstacle to merging a Quartz driver is cleaning up the user32 driver interface. Objective C is a minor issue with a pretty straightforward solution. Currently nobody knows what a proper user32 driver interface would look like.




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