Re: newbie question

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"James Mckenzie"  wrote:
> > can somebody tell weather it is possible to run NT service on Wine,
> > especially written in Delphi VCL(TService)

Just run it and see how it goes. If you face some bugs - open a bug
report in the Wine bugzilla, preferably with a test case, since you
can replicate one using your source code.
> Services do not natively run on Wine startup.  You have to start
> them and then leave at least one window open.

That's not true.
> If your service depends on direct hardware access or the use of any
> special device driver, it will not work in Wine as it does not recreate
> all of the functionality of Windows.

That applies for all Windows applications, not just services.