On 5/8/07, Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/07, Tom Spear speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
I just remembered reading somewhere (wiki, perhaps?) that the ultimate goal of wine (aside from documenting the windows api, etc) was to provide open-source drop-in replacements for windows' core dll's. If that is the case, do we have a framework setup for building the wine dlls as windows .dll files, so that we could test the actual status of this?
Google around for posts by me and other about build wine with mingw. I've been meaning to document it for years but never gotten around to it. You either need to build on windows with a mingw or have two trees on Linux, one with the host tools and the other configured for the cross-compiler.
That would be the framework. I appreciate the response. Is this something that either now or in the future will be officially supported by wine, or even a true goal of wine, or is it more of a side project for you and some others?