That tiny OpenGL app

[Markus Hitter]

Am 17.07.2008 um 11:21 schrieb Chris Robinson:

> The cross-compiler comes with win32 import/static libs. Since MinGW  
> is a
> Windows port of GCC (and the cross-compiler is basically a port  
> back), the
> libs it comes with are native Windows. The -L switches, however,  
> point the
> compiler to Wine's ELF libs, which the native .exe it produces doesn't
> understand.

This makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

>> I guess I'll have to set up a virtual machine running the real thing.
>> There are so many levels of abstraction (64-bit Ubuntu -> 32-bit app,
>> Linux environment -> Windows libraries, Linux build platform ->
>> Windows binaries), making my setup pretty fragile.
>
> 64-bit Linux should run 32-bit Windows binaries fine with Wine.  
> OpenGL apps,
> too. Of course you'll need the 32-bit Linux libs installed for Wine  
> to use,
> however.

I'm hunting for a few of the differences between "should" and "does"  
and try to catch them with test cases. See bug #10490.


MarKus

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