Introduction and Sparc Solaris Status

Hi all,

I'm trying to get winelib working on Sparc-solaris.  I've got a few
questions I'd like to ask, but I'm going to post them as separate
messages, to keep the threading tidy.

But to summarize my status - I've managed to get
programs/{winemine,clock,notepad} all mostly working.  The main
remaining bug is that the mouse cursor doesn't show up in any of the
windows.  I'm currently looking into this one, but am having trouble
figuring out which bit of rope to start pulling on.  Any suggestions
would be very welcome.

My goal is to fix the mouse cursor, and then start cleaning up what
I've got to submit a patch sometime fairly soon.

Thanks,

Warren

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

> I'm trying to get winelib working on Sparc-solaris.  I've got a few
> questions I'd like to ask, but I'm going to post them as separate
> messages, to keep the threading tidy.

On Sparc processor? you mean you're emulating all the other layers too? like 
processor, ram, video etc? isn't it kinda ... slow?

Don't get me wrong - if this works fast on Sun Blade 100 - then hey, I'll be 
happy to put it right here ;)

Have you managed to run something a bit more complicated then notepad? again - 
I (and I'm sure others) will be happy to hear about this stuff...

Thanks,
Hetz

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > I'm trying to get winelib working on Sparc-solaris.  I've got a few
> > questions I'd like to ask, but I'm going to post them as separate
> > messages, to keep the threading tidy.
>
> On Sparc processor? you mean you're emulating all the other layers too? like
> processor, ram, video etc? isn't it kinda ... slow?

Warren_Baird said:
> I'm trying to get *winelib* working on Sparc-solaris.

Emphasis mine. He is trying to get Winelib to work on Sparc.
Winelib is the part of Wine that lets you recompile applications on
Unix. This requires having the source of course, but lets you compile
Windows programs on non x86 platforms. So there is no processor
emulation going on (as is always the case with Wine ;-).
   The issues are the usual issues:
 * byte endianness
 * alignment issues
 * pointer size
 * must not use x86 assembly

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