On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:51:29PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
Not necessarily. What you propose to do for Wine can be done for the C and X11 libraries. Then you get an emulator that lets you run x86 Linux applications on a PPC machine... including Wine.
Well, yes... But if you have a system that creates for you a 'translation' layer for all the libraries used by Wine, why not use it directly on Wine itself ?
You cannot have a tool that is going to write the translation layer automatically. I guess it is simpler to write it by hand for the Unix APIs (maybe a couple thousands at most?), rather than for the Windows APIs >> 10 thousands, plus tons of messages, plus tons of callbacks, plus poor documentation, etc.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ It really galls me that most of the computer power in the world is wasted on screen savers. Chris Caldwell from the GIMPS project http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm