WINE on Cygwin

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Thu Nov 3 15:49:00 GMT 2005


Informações 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 ? Could anyone 
> provide me some useful information that I could take as an starting 
> point for this implementation ?
>
>    Any other comments regarding the bulding/execution of the Wine 
> under Cygwin would be very welcome.
>
>    FLu-X

I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running 
Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under 
Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a 
Windows apps, well then just run the Windows app!
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