Wine Now Really Does Windows

FeeDBaCK writes: "As many of you may not know, Wine is currently being ported to Mingw for the ReactOS project. An update to the status of some of the Wine native Dlls under Windows was posted to the wine-devel mailing list. What this means is that there are now some Wine Dlls, which contain no Microsoft code, that appear to be interchangeable with the official Microsoft Dlls with no apparent loss in functionality. These Dlls include imagehlp.dll and riched32.dll. This comes as a great win for Wine, and brings them one step closer to bringing Windows applications to Linux." There's still a list of not-yet-functioning ones, but this is nice news.

Comments

Re:I've been waiting for news like this

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep waiting. They've only ported a few DLL's at this point.

Nope

[isolation]

I'm one of the core ReactOS developers and one of the main peple working on the WINE port to mingw and you are so wrong. The NT core is not going anywhere. Look at 2k/XP and guess what its NT with a nicer GUI. The only major changes are ACPI/PNP and WDM drivers. Plus once our work is done on the kernel and porting WINE I can start on a mono port with WinForms so we will have .net.

Of course we still need someone to get our GDI working so we really can have "windows" =P

Re:Nope

[linuxator]

Well WDM drivers are exactly what i got in mind when mentioning NT core. And also, ReactOS team should post more news (even minor ones) on reactos.com...;)

It's a really good project and wish you all good luck with it.

Re:Nope

[isolation]

I will discuss this with our webmaster and see if we can get more info.

Normaly we follow a 180 release cycle and post news then. If you follow our development closely the 0.0.x branch should only last untill we get windowing going. Windoing is the goal for 0.1.0 and I would like to see Windowing/Networking be done for 0.2.0. The current CVS tree can just about self-host with mingw-gcc =)