wine users - Mar 2008 - Re: If you think getting Windows games working in Wine is hard .

David Gerard
> ... try getting old Linux binaries to work in a current Linux. It's
> actually harder. 

Really depends on how, distrobution and application.  If you have a openvz
kernel not that hard just bulky.  With a openvz kernel you just install both
versions of Linux.

Linux kernel has binary compatibility with applications.  Its the .so files
above it that give nice fun issues.  Before something like openvz using a chroot
to fix was not uncommon.

Now does it have binary compatibility with drivers hell no.

Linux version of dll hell.

_POSIX2_VERSION  is just like setting windows version for a application.  Except
that has far reaching changes.   Changes functions in librarys how they react
changes what features are available from console tools and so on.  Hello binary
compatibility this is part of the posix standard.

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Nice another application hitting the X11 spec problems around Composite just in
a worse way the wine most of the time.

Critical line
http://secretlondon.livejournal.com/447659.html
> It now worked from the menu - it didn't need any of the compatibility
libraries.
So there was binary compatibility there.  I have had far far worse.

Loki installers when they were new would do stupid things as having the
application only able to run as root until you corrected permissions.  So that
being wrong was normal Loki.  God of mischief was a good name for that companies
installers.

Most fun is not getting old linux binarys to work in Linux.  Its getting like
other Unix binaries to work in Linux.  Yes doable but a nightmare in custom
kernel modules.

On 29/03/2008, oiaohm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  Most fun is not getting old linux binarys to work in Linux.  Its getting
like other Unix binaries to work in Linux.  Yes doable but a nightmare in custom
kernel modules.

/me dives for cover

At least 86open.org just decided "everything supports Linux ELF, let's
just declare that the minimum standard" and emulation with syscall
translation and a pile of Red Hat libs works reasonably well in
practice ...


- d.