On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, This is just some interesting reading you guys might enjoy. It seems, the Unix subsystem will give you the ability to create a mixed application able to call Win32 and Unix functionality. In effect PSX becomes like wineserver and you have to wrap your win32 libs as posix libraries. (sound familure).
http://blogs.msdn.com/shan/archive/2007/02/06/posix-code-and-win32-gui.aspx
This is dated 2007 so its not really NEW news, but it is still interesting that Wine was able to create cross platform applications for like 10 years before Microsoft was able to with their posix subsystem.
I also forgot to mention something else I found that we've had for like 4 or 5 years.
http://interix-wgcc.sourceforge.net/index.html
"wgcc is a cross-compiler tool primarily written for Microsoft's Interix. Its primary purpose is to produce native Windows binaries (internally using the Microsoft Tool chain), and to mimic the behaviour of the GNU compiler collection. This means that wgcc understands many of GCC's command line arguments, and in most cases delivers the same results as expected, sometimes manipulating the underlying tool's input and output"
Somehow the idea of the gcc wrapper emulating mingw does not sound new to me...
Maybe we should patent this shit ;)