[Wine] playing with Wine on Cygwin

[David Gerard]

2008/12/30 DanKegel <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> oiaohm wrote:

>> Sorry David Gerard you could be the only person trying to get wine to work under Cygwin.

> I think it's a cool idea.   At the very least, building and running
> the wine unit test suite under Cygwin could be useful.
> And various individual Wine DLLs could be useful on Windows,
> especially the direct x 10 implementation.


Newer versions of Windows fail to support old applications that are
still supported by Wine. So Wine for Windows would supply useful
backward compatibility for users. Wine is already a better Windows
than Vista in a lot of cases ...

Wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

Note I'm also trying Wine on MinGW and Wine on Interix %-D

I note there's also a page on how to cross-compile Wine PE DLLs on
Unix: http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilingDLLsUsingMingw The Wine download
page includes a 2.5-year-old zip file of Windows DLLs from Wine
0.9.14, apparently built using this.


> So it's not at all crazy...


You wouldn't be saying that if you were trying the things I'm trying
to beat this into working ;-p


- d.