Got Application cross-compiled with msvc11 for ARM running

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 03/08/2012 05:54 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 08.03.2012 17:52, schrieb Michael Stefaniuc:
>> On 03/08/2012 05:40 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I cross-compiled a simple Application with the preview of MSVC 11 to ARM.
>>> After some minor changes to Wine i was able to run it on my Pandaboard using the native msvcr110.dll.
>>> One thing i noticed in the cross-compile environment is that there are much less libraries available for ARM, that's mostly because the win32 API isn't meant to be ported entirely, instead ARM Apps should be based on WinRT.
>>> Still i was able to dynamic load functions from dlls available in Wine beside static loaded functions that also worked.
>>>
>>> In short:
>>> The good news: The ABI is compatible (to armel gnueabi)
>>> The bad news: no fully win32 API on ARM
>> Bad news? Quite the contrary. Good use case for Wine on Windows.
> If we get that running, true.
I don't mean the full Wine, just the missing libs and headers for people
to easily port their Windows apps to ARM.

>>> Maybe my small changes to Wine will make it into 1.5.1 :) At least i hope so.
>> 1.5.1 or 1.4.1?
> I don't decide that :) Maybe both ;)

bye
	michael