[DotGNU]RE: winelib and macs

[Dennis Hayes]

My understanding is:
1) Wine is limited to x86.
2) WineLib is supposed to be portable, but has not/may not get to the Mac.
Dennis


Message: 2
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:56:47 -0400
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]PInvoke question...
Cc: <address@hidden>
To: "Mark Easton" <address@hidden>
From: Glenn Chambers <address@hidden>

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Mark Easton wrote:

> Stupid me - of course you are right that Winelib doesn't run on PPC, or
> anything other than x86 for that matter.

Don't be so hasty.  While I've never tried it, Winelib may in fact work 
fine on *any* Unix-like system, no matter what hardware.  Winelib is a 
subroutine *library* that provides the Windows API.  It is a subset of 
Wine, which emulates the Windows *operating system*, to the extent that 
it even runs programs compiled for Windows.

I'd suggest checking at www.winehq.com to see what the portability 
status if winelib is.  (Quickly checking, there's no mention of anyone 
actually trying this...  Maybe it won't work...)

Glenn Chambers
Toledo, OH