Re: Wine
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 02:14:20 -0500
>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Shulenburger <sluke@MIT.EDU> wrote:
Luke> [...] Will it be difficult to run wine on an alpha? (when wine
Luke> gets more stable in general) Will it be difficult to port to run
Luke> with debian's current set of libraries? [...]
WINE stands for `WINE Is Not an Emulator'. It runs X86 code natively,
on the processor. This will presumably run on an Alpha under EM86,
but the obvious question to ask is `why?'. winelib, on the other
hand holds out a lot more promise: the idea here is to provide a
Windows compatible API. In other words, you can put winelib on your
machine and compile Windows code to produce *native* binaries. This
is much more exciting, and is where Corel appear to be putting their
development effort. In effect, the Windows API is gradually becoming
a cross-platform generic library.
The best people to ask for more details are the WINE developers: start
at <http://www.winehq.com/>.
--
Robin Stephenson
Do Not Shake
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