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

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:Windows DLLs

[aridhol]

That may be true today for your average home user. What about when a business gets, say, 10 computers, and don't get the Windows licenses to go with them? Sure, they could use the DLLs from their licensed computers, until the Microsoft Police come and bust them for using 10 illegal copies of the Windows DLLs.

Re:awesome

[darien]

Once the Wine hackers have developed drop-in replacements for all of the Windows components, we will essentially have a Windows clone. Then we can start focussing on added functionality.

He he. Let's embrace and extend the Windows APIs...