WINE on Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 3 13:20:00 GMT 2005


On Nov  3 11:08, Informa??es wrote:
>    Hey All,
> 
>    I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and 
> have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of 
> the WineHQ developers informed me that:
> 
>    "... the last time someone tried, the main obstacle was that cygwin 
> doesn't support sendmsg() to send file descriptors across processes, which 
> means that the wine server cannot work. This in turn means you cannot run 
> kernel32 or user32. "
> 
>    Some further invistigation shows that this is an old issue that has 
> arisen several times during the course of the Cygwin history. Does anybody 
> has any clue on the status of this issue ?

It's still an issue.


Corinna

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