Dear folks,
I'd like to proposal a short talk on the topic "Full Stack on Wine".
"Full Stack" means "full software stack", for example, the attached image is a software stack for Chromium. Chromium depends on several libraries like gtk, sqlite3, libwebp, these libraries depend on some common libraries like cairo, pango, then those common libraries depend on lower level libraries like libpng, glib, finally they depend on a few basic libraries like gcc-libs and zlib.
In the plan of Full Stack on Wine, we are thinking about improving the compatibility of thousands of open source win32 libraries on top of wine, from bottom to top, layer by layer. At the same time, we are planing to collaborate with thousands of open source win32 projects, make Wine a useful build & testing & deployment platform for them, establish a win-win for both sides. The idea is inspired by http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites , but not exact the same, I'll explain the details in the talk.
Thanks for contribution from many people, currently we've successfully build 300+ win32 open source projects on top of Wine (using win32 version of toolchain, instead of cross-compile), with the help of MSYS2 [1]. At the same time, we also made Cygwin almost work out of box on Wine.
In the final, I'd like to not only make a call of help, but also proposal some adjustment on the Wine project, to coordinate with some of our partner win32 open source projects, that would bring us to an open discussion.
The talk is relative short, about 15 mins. I'd really like to talk 15 hours, but thanks to god my spoken English is so poor so I couldn't ;-)
Thank you!
