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Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X?

Posted by Zonk on from the to-what-purpose-and-determination dept.

ozmanjusri writes "Coders working on Wine for Mac have found that the Mac loader has gained its own undocumented ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files. They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to 'Win' and 'PE' in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion. Is Apple planning native PE execution within OS X?"

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  1. Re:Watch out microsoft by g0at · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interesting. One of the major downsides to using OSX is that there isn't as much software available for it. If OSX were able to run windows executables natively (think Microsoft Office and games) that would be a major coup for Apple. Plus you wouldn't need to sit around hoping that WINE decides to support that application. Eh? Did you copy/paste this from a discussion five years ago?

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  2. Re:Not for Win32 compatibility by Marcos+Eliziario · · Score: 5, Funny

    "As Wine proves, any reimplementation of the Win32 API is inevitably not going to be as good as the real thing."

    Yeah, most of my pet spywares fail to run correctly under wine.

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