[Wine] Make sure that Visual Studio works before 1.2 release
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 9 21:49:11 CDT 2010
Jesse Palser wrote:
>
> On 07/07/2010 02:47 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>> fernandocarvalho<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>> Then, for the next release of wine, we could make sure that every
>>> new wine release, is
>>> capable of running Visual Studio.
>> Give us a real good compelling reason why this should be so. We are
>> busy enough with trying to make 3,000 games and office applictions
>> run (or more.) There are things in VS that will never work with Wine
>> and that's just fine. We are trying to get MingWin to work and
>> Cygwin to work as well. This will allow for building of Windows
>> executibles from Linux/UNIX and to run them in Windows. That would
>> be considered a massive step forward.
>>
>>> So we can maintain a certain compliance with key features of windows.
>> That's why we concentrate on applications over a broad spectrum.
>>
>>> If Visual Studio starts working in a good shape, we can be sure that
>>> many applications
>>> will also work, because a great portion of them are build using
>>> Visual Studio.
>> It won't and never will. Applications use .NET and other 'features'
>> of Windows as well. The goal should be:
>>
>> 1. Get legacy applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
>> 2. Get current applications to work in Wine as they do in Windows.
>> 3. Get cygwin/mingwin to build Windows applications in UNIX/Linux.
>> 4. Get Visual Studio to work in Wine.
>>
>> The first is mainly done. The second is where a lot of the messages
>> in this forum come from. The third is a purely developer issue. The
>> fourth may or may not happen as time goes along. Remember, we are
>> following the Microsoft path and they have been known to throw a
>> wrench into the works on a regular basis. And yes, I've been at this
>> since the introduction of Windows95 to get Win32s applications to run
>> on OS/2 (Project Odinn...)
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> I you want Visual Studio to work, don't look towards Wine to do it.
> Grab a free copy of VirtualBox and install a Windows to it.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Jesse
>
>
That's because you are running Windows, not an API. We are working on
getting VS to work, but that takes time. Right now VS2005Trial does
work with Wine, but in a limited fashion.
James McKenzie
>
>
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