At 2006-03-24 22:26 -0500, Segin wrote:
I was thinking about running Wine on Interix (the POSIX layer of Microsoft's Services for Unix). There are a few apparent unknows:
Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Since Interix uses PE for it's native format (running on Windows, duh), Would Wine load the .dll.so's? Would it reject them being in PE format and having the 'POSIX Layer' attribute set, or could we hack on a patch to detect if Wine itself is running in said layer, and load them if it is? Would that even *work*? And how about detecting Winelib applications? It might get detected as a regular Windows app, and ... uh-oh... (let's just say it isn't pretty)
There are several obvious pros: You can test Wine almost fully under Windows without mingling with Windows's native componets. This would allow for better and faster compatability tests. We could also see what "unknowns" exist in Interix -- Althought not nessessrarly useful to Wine developers itself, it could mean a whole new generation of applications which are half-Unix, half-Windows, if the right holes are found.
I am sure this will spark a LOT of debate.
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Bear in mind that SFU won't install on XP Home or XP64. It seems to be XP Pro only. I haven't tried installing on the Vista Beta (either 32 or 64 bit).
Geoff