wine users - Mar 2007 - Wine's Notepad

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? The Microsoft version of
notepad runs in both, so what's special (or not) about Wine notepad?

John

On Mar 5, 8:31 am, john.vo...@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.)