Programming With WineLib 17
paulydavis writes "The
c/c++ users journal has an article about porting windows applications to Linux using
Winelib. The article is a good tutorial on how to obtain winelib and how to use such things as the winebuild and the winemaker tool."
wxWindows (Score:5, Interesting)
Why not just avoid the Win32 APIs and use a cross-plpatform framework like wxWindows [wxwindows.org]? You can built native Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac GUI applications from the same source code. It's also been around for about 11 years.
sure (Score:5, Informative)
winelib (Score:1)
Sure would make a nice addition to boost.
Re:winelib (Score:1)
Qt (license needed for commercial purposes)
Re:winelib (Score:1)
Re:Just dual boot for fucks sake. (Score:2, Funny)
it _so_ more productive than watching my favorite soapopera
Laser Squad Nemesis port (Score:1)
Will this allow us to run Windows stuff natively? (Score:2)
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:3, Interesting)
Isn't there a teensy bit of a virus issue with doing something like this to a Linux box? Seems like it would be well worth the time to manually create shortcuts that launch Wine rather than just let any Windows code run unchecked.
It's this kind of thing that got Windows in trouble with viruses in the first place.
No joke (Score:2)
Account restrictions (Score:1)
Isn't there a teensy bit of a virus issue with doing something like this to a Linux box?
Not in the kids' account with no network privileges and no write privileges outside of /home and /tmp.
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:3, Interesting)
Running code is dangerous. Your account privs must be in place. It doesn't matter if the app needed winelibs or not.
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:2)
I know of no such daemon, and one wouldn't really be very useful. Making Linux able to execute Windows EXEs "natively" in this way is little more than a semantic change - all it does is run "wine foo.exe" for you when you write "./foo.exe" - neat, but... what's the point?
Especially when you consider that mostly wine apps will install to the fake C drive
Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel (Score:1)