er.. I Just meant to convert PE -> ELF so that the programs could be run without wine. Just some *.dll.so files as depends... NM thought your are right it would make a good faq.
Scott Ritchie wrote: 
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:00 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
  
Jason Couture wrote:
    
How hard would it be to introduce a "Re-Compiler" instead of an 
interpreter? To convert PE -> ELF without having the source. The output 
would not have to be a user runnable file maybe just a cache? Possiable 
Speed up? To avoid copyright issues maybe the elf could require the pe 
to run? In my experience JIT Compiling or interpreting is much slower 
than a recompiled program... Let me know what you people think.
      
Wine is not an interpreter or a JIT compiler.  It is a binary loader, so 
it loads a Windows program into memory, and jumps to the start address. 
  The program itself will run exactly the same way as on a Windows 
machine, expect for the times when it calls an API function in a 
"builtin" or Wine implemented DLL.

Mike

    

This would make a nice FAQ entry.

--Scott