Re: Why Wine is like playing the guitar

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Steven Edwards"  wrote:
> > If instead someone was planning to try to interface the native Linux
>
> Mozilla binary with WINE,
> > you should realize that would be even more difficult, one immediate
>
> showstopper is that Mozilla
> > uses pthreads and WINE doesn't.  It would be a nightmare.
>
> .....I didn't really think about that. What about applications ported
> with winelib, can you use pthreads with them? If such a wrapper was
> developed to run Mozilla_W32/Wine could you then use winelib to port the
> application and use linux_mozzila/gecko?

I don't know the status of the patch, but Transgaming did some work
to use pthreads natively in WineX.