[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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