NOTE: There is an ongoing effort in Wine to provide a complete Microsoft Visual C++runtime library replacement - removing the need of installing the Microsoft VC++ redistributables packages. This is a work in progress hence you might still need to install Microsoft VC++ runtime.
Is there any information if it's still going at all, or any way to track progress?
I was trying in wiki, bugzilla, source..Couldn't find more info.
There used to be a sort of "progress" page but I think it was removed for being neither particularly accurate nor useful.
Wine is still under fairly constant development though. Unfortunately there's really no way to know other than to just try it. Best practice would be to install the current devel version of wine (or staging, though afaik there aren't any VC specific patches), create a test prefix, and install your app. If it works, great. If not you could always file a bug.
The thing is the devs can't really know if something needs work unless someone reports a problem. This can include functions that wine hasn't implemented until some app is found that needs them. Like the goal has never been to implement every msvc dll completely as I understand it. Hopefully that makes things clearer.
spoon0042 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:33 pm
the goal has never been to implement every msvc dll completely as I understand it. Hopefully that makes things clearer.
Oh, if that's so - totally makes sense now, thank you