[Wine] Re: playing with Wine on Cygwin

[jeffz]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/29 jeffz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> 
> 
> > There's little reason to suspect virtualization for a compile time error.
> > 
> 
> 
> I suspect *everything*, particularly when the makefile is constructed
> by ./configure on the basis of reading the operating system's entrails
> ...
> 
> On OpenBSD a lot of weird stuff is definitely due to virtualisation -
> OpenBSD is a blue pill showing every glitch in the Matrix.
> 
> Windows (and hence Cygwin) have the red pill especially built for
> them, so are much easier to keep fooled, it's true ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> > Coincidentally, this bug also occurs on OpenBSD http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16660
> > You could try the suggested fix attached to the bug report.
> > 
> 
> 
> Just trying on XP in VirtualBox as well.
> 
> 
> - d.


No really.  Just try the patches.