FAQ: Will there be a Windows version of Wine?

[Steven Edwards]

Thanks Francois, I have been meaning to update some of the docs to answer these questions for a
while. You put it much better and more to the point then I would have =).

Steven

--- Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> Changelog:
> 
>  * documentation/faq.sgml
> 
>    Tweak 'Will there be a Windows version of Wine?':
>    - Add a pointer to the MinGW project
>    - Fix the ReactOS case
>    - Explain the rational behind these porting projects
> 
> 
> Index: documentation/faq.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/faq.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.13
> diff -u -r1.13 faq.sgml
> --- documentation/faq.sgml	28 Jul 2003 19:06:10 -0000	1.13
> +++ documentation/faq.sgml	20 Aug 2003 20:24:25 -0000
> @@ -485,19 +575,26 @@
>        </question>
>        <answer>
>          <para>
> -          Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows.
> +          Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows
> +          using one of the following projects as a basis:
>          </para>
>          <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
>            <listitem>
>              <para>
> -              Cygwin (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com">
> -              http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink>)
> +              Cygwin
> +              (<ulink url="http:/www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com</>)
> +            </para>
> +          </listitem>
> +          <listitem>
> +            <para>
> +              MinGW
> +              (<ulink url="http:/www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org</>)
>              </para>
>            </listitem>
>            <listitem>
>              <para>
> -              Reactos (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">
> -             http://www.reactos.com/</ulink>)
> +              ReactOS
> +              (<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">http://www.reactos.com</>)
>              </para>
>            </listitem>
>          </itemizedlist>
> @@ -505,9 +602,21 @@
>            There's some progress, so a Wine version that's usable on Windows
>            might be available at some time.
>          </para>
> +        <para>
> +          Part of the rational for these projects is to find out areas where
> +          Wine portability is lacking. This is especially true of the
> +          ReactOS project which is a reimplementation of the Windows kernel
> +          and should thus be able to reuse most of Wine dlls.
> +        </para>
> +        <para>
> +          Another reason for pursuing these projects is to be able to
> +          replace a single Windows dll with its Wine counterpart. Besides
> +          being a good test for the Wine dll, this lets us detect cases where
> +          we made incorrect assumptions about how the dlls interact.
> +        </para>
>        </answer>
>        </qandaentry>
> -
> +
>      </qandadiv>
>      <qandadiv id="What-do-I-need-in-order-to-use-Wine">
>        <title>What do I need in order to use Wine?</title>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Francois Gouget         fgouget at free.fr        http://fgouget.free.fr/
>         It really galls me that most of the computer power in the world
>                           is wasted on screen savers.
>                      Chris Caldwell from the GIMPS project
>                        http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
> 
> 


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