RE: [DotGNU]PInvoke question...

[Mark Easton]

You're totally right; I've just instructed my Lawyer to start
proceedings against my Mum for passing me down her hasty genes.

While Wine works categorically with x86 hardware and x86 hardware alone,
winelib is a different beast and is not implicitly x86 based.  Although
the Wine guys don't seem too bothered about investigating the use of
Winelib on non-X86 hardware, I think I might have a play to see how
powerpc friendly it is

Cheers for the kick

M



-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Chambers [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 11 July 2003 00:57
To: Mark Easton
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]PInvoke question...

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