Ira Krakow wrote:
As many of you know, Brian and I are writing a book on Wine and Winelib for Prentice Hall. Brian's doing the Wine part; I'm doing the Winelib part.
At Wineconf, I had a number of conversations about Winelib's role in converting Windows apps. The consensus seems to be that the most efficient conversion path is for much of the Windows app to stay in Visual C++ (or whatever) and that only the modules that specifically require native Linux calls should be recompiled, via MinGW/Dev-C++ on the Windows side, and Winemaker on the Linux side, into Winelib objects.
This is true, the only good reason to still recompile everything as Winelib stuff is if you need to run your programs on an other CPU architecture like PPC or SPARC. But for that you need to have the whole source for your application because binary DLLs wont work.
bye michael