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Re: compiling wine under cygwin - status ??


K K wrote:
>>There has also been a bit of progress towards
>>building Wine DLLs with MinGW (kind of the opposite
>>of what you're looking for).
> 
> What is the difference between MinGW and cygwin? I do
> want to build some Wine DLLs.

Wine's DLLs are getting to be pretty compatible with Windows'
DLLs, and the ultimate test of that is to try actually
running them on a Windows system.  The way to do that is to
build them with MinGW.

>>What is your interest in using Wine on Cygwin?
>>Simply the beauty of fully nestable environments,
>>or some practical reason?
> 
> Thank you, Dan. I just want to use wine on cygwin as
> test enviroment.

To test what?  Cygwin?  Or Wine?  Or some other piece of software?
- Dan

p.s. This message was composed using Mozilla running on Linux
but displayed on Windows via ssh in a Cygwin rootless X server!

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