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.
For example, if the application requires PAM authentication, or a Linux-based help system, these modules would be separated out and encapsulated as Winelib objects. I was thinking of using PAM authentication as a good example, since it works for any authentication scheme that the application requires.
This is the approach I plan to take. I welcome all feedback.
Thanks. Ira