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RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:23:57 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> It COULD be done! Admittedly, it might not be a snap, but Wine already uses
> a POSIX layer to accomplish what it needs to do.
> In our case, it would use Cygwin!
wine is in most parts the same as replacing kernel32.dll user32.dll and
some other system dependent libraries. So you won't achive anything if
you run the windows application in a wine subsystem. The goal is not to
replace the windows dlls with the wine dlls but to translate the GDI
calls to X11. This has nothing to do with the POSIX layer.
If someone is going into this, than start with the wine x11drv.
Unfortunately no one from wine-devel commented that concept.
bye
ago
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