It is my understanding that WINE reimplements the Windows system calls in Linux, not so much the Windows API. Subsequently, I doubt it will ever be 100% compatible with the Windows environment -- although very close.
Personally, I would rather reengineer the application in wxWidgets, Qt or some other cross-platform GUI API, particularly for mission critical applications.
Ditch LDAP and use a relational database. LDAP isn't ACID anyway so you are putting your data at risk. Read this article by Peter Gutman:
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/09a_cert_store.pd f
Although he was writing about X.509 certificate storage, it still applies. Save yourself a lot of time and headaches.
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It is my understanding that WINE reimplements the Windows system calls in Linux, not so much the Windows API. Subsequently, I doubt it will ever be 100% compatible with the Windows environment -- although very close.
Personally, I would rather reengineer the application in wxWidgets, Qt or some other cross-platform GUI API, particularly for mission critical applications.
Ditch LDAP and use a relational database. LDAP isn't ACID anyway so you are putting your data at risk. Read this article by Peter Gutman: http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/09a_cert_store.pd f
Although he was writing about X.509 certificate storage, it still applies. Save yourself a lot of time and headaches.