[Wine] Will wine run itself's windows version under linux?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 10:15:38 CDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:25 AM, fg <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> You might have already talk about this but I didn't find any related post with a quick search, so sorry in advance..
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> Well, I saw that there is a windows version of wine (although I can not understand why) but nevertheless I immediately wondered: is it possible to run the windows version of wine under linux using wine?
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> has anyone tried it?
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> Regards.
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That wouldn't be useful. The Windows 'version' of Wine is cross
compiled DLLs for testing, e.g., Wine's implementation of comdlg32
compiling as a native PE binary DLL, which is then tested on Windows
for it's functionality.

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-Austin



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