Hello, I was able to build WINE with the Intel Compiler for Linux. Intel allows free usage for non-comercial works so I figured I would check and see if changing compilers would yield better performance. According to Intels site it is supposed to give a 15 to 30% speed boost in applications. I was able to compile WINE with only about a 10 line patch. Somehow some of of the inline asm is already getting defined by icc. I am having some problems running graphical applications and maybe it is related to the code I had to disable. If anyone else wants to test I figure this might be a good tool to have if you are porting a Winelib application and want a large performance speed up.
I was able to get all of WINE to build but was not able to run any graphical applications due to the crash show in the attached crash.log I was however able to run quite a few console applications including regresion tests which showed failures quite a few failures.
If anyone is interested in building WINE with the Intel Compiler I will be happy to test a bit but I dont have a lot of time to put in to it. Attached is my hack.diff and the log from trying to run regedit.
1. Download ICC and run icsvar.sh 2. apply the following patch 3. Configure wine with ./configure CC=icc 4. recompile WINE.
Thanks Steven
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