Hi all
I'm wondering if it would be possible to run Wine on Win64 ("x64")
to
allow Win16 apps to be run? Preferably a native 64-bit binary, using
mostly native DLLs. (Services for Unix / Subsystem for Unix based
Applications might help for getting Wine compiled)
It might be a great way to get more users and developers for Wine.
Regular Windows releases of the DirectX 10 DLL's might significantly
increase testing and / or development as well...
Gert van den Berg
2008/7/19 Gert van den Berg <wine-users at mohag.net>:> I'm wondering if it would be possible to run Wine on Win64 ("x64") to > allow Win16 apps to be run? Preferably a native 64-bit binary, using > mostly native DLLs. (Services for Unix / Subsystem for Unix based > Applications might help for getting Wine compiled) > It might be a great way to get more users and developers for Wine. > Regular Windows releases of the DirectX 10 DLL's might significantly > increase testing and / or development as well...Wine on Windows is getting to be a FAQ by now :-) Many people have tried running Wine under Cygwin. Mostly it's an achievement just to get it to compile and run. (Then there's interesting little gotchas like when it edits the registry of the host Windows box rather than the Wine instance ...) Possibly a detailed wiki page on this should be compiled (though not by me) and kept updated. - d.
Gert van den Berg wrote:> Hi all > > I'm wondering if it would be possible to run Wine on Win64 ("x64") to > allow Win16 apps to be run?No Wine does not emulate CPU nor the low-level system. If OS can not run such programs because it can't setup the proper environment (segments, descriptors, etc) then Wine won't help there. Gert van den Berg wrote:> > Regular Windows releases of the DirectX 10 DLL's might significantly > increase testing and / or development as well...I'm not sure what are you trying to say hare? That you want to run native DX on top of Wine? Or native DX10 in XP? Neither is possible.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, David Gerard wrote:> 2008/7/19 Gert van den Berg > Wine on Windows is getting to be a FAQ by now :-) > > Many people have tried running Wine under Cygwin. Mostly it's an > achievement just to get it to compile and run. (Then there's > interesting little gotchas like when it edits the registry of the host > Windows box rather than the Wine instance ...) > > Possibly a detailed wiki page on this should be compiled (though not > by me) and kept updated. >I am aware that is runnable under Windows using Cygwin (I would like to try it under SFU sometime... Probably at least Debian-Interix to get a decent GCC version...) I'm just wondering if it can be applied for purposes useful to the end-user there... (It would probably require a few relatively minor changes to allow WOW64 to handle Win32...) If it can help speed up development it might benefit Wine as a whole.