[Wine] Run WINE on Windows?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon May 3 11:12:01 CDT 2010


On 3 May 2010 15:10, oiaohm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> Something most people are not aware is that all Unix/Linux/BSD kernels cannot load dynamic binarys at all.
> Instead depend on little user space programs to it.   Like ld-linux.so.2 yes it hides as a library.
> Where windows dynamic loader is part of kernel.
> Hello major issue.  Wine can work since it replaces the Unix/Linux/BSD dynamic loader.
> Under windows it requires adding a windows subsystem that would be a completely different design.  Then you would have two subsystems fighting to load the binary.  Not fun.


I've added your explanation to the wiki page :-)

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows#head-865d47787ef70e5a51c975c6542dc6215fd79480


- d.



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