Will there be a port of WINE to OS/390 mainframe USS? LINUX runs fine under USS, so it would seem that WINE should run there as well. Has anyone done this yet?
Hi James,
If you are talking about WINE the Windows binary PE loader (directly supporting and loading windows .exe files) this will probably never happen, unless somebody wants to add intel emulation code into WINE. (at a significant speed penalty, of course)
If you are talking about WineLib, I believe that Ulrich made a post earlier this year mentioning getting at least a partial port of a WineLib app running on an S390. (I believe he mentioned getting Winemine to compile)
From the sounds of it there is still some work needed before WineLib will
build and run out of the box on that platform.
-James
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