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Programming With WineLib

Posted by chrisd on from the windows-as-a-ui-toolkit dept.

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."

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  1. sure by sydlexic · · Score: 5, Informative

    that's a fine approach for 'new' applications, but this is a much faster approach for porting existing apps or using existing API skillsets.

  2. Re:Will this allow us to run Windows stuff nativel by cide1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a Wine daemon that can run and intercept a call from the shell or filemanager and make the appropriate wine calls invisible to the user. RedHat 8 has it on by default when you choose to install Wine. It is quite useful, because a binary is now a binary, no matter what is required to run it, the appropriate libraries and environment are automatically loaded.

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