[Wine] Re: Wine's Notepad

[dank]

On Mar 5, 8:31 am, john.vo... at gmail.com wrote:
> This may be a stupid question, but does anybody know why the Wine
> version of notepad won't run on Windows? I get the error that it is
> not a valid Win32 application when I try to run it. Shouldn't it be
> able to run in Windows or Wine seamlessly?

Yes, if it's compiled as a Windows executable.
By default, Wine's notepad is compiled as a Winelib executable,
so it only works on Linux.

(IMHO it ought to be compiled as a Windows executable
by default, but that would mean you'd have to have
a cross-compiler to build Wine, which would be a pain.)