Porting Wine To Visopsys

Max Barney · Post by **Max Barney** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:25 pm

Is it feasible to port Wine to Visopsys? http://www.visopsys.org/

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:32 pm

2009/1/25 Max Barney <[email protected]>:

Is it feasible to port Wine to Visopsys? http://www.visopsys.org/

Depends how good an imitation of POSIX it does. Wine is fundamentally
a Unix program. (More specifically, a Linux program with somewhat
functional FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X ports.)

I've been banging my head against this with quite good POSIX
imitations of late: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows - you can try
it with less-good imitations, though I don't like your chances.

But I'm having tremendous fun with the Cygwin port, even though it's
ultimately futile as long as it can't actually launch applications

It'll certainly help make Wine itself more robustly cross-platform,
which is always good.

- d.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:44 pm

Max Barney wrote:Is it feasible to port Wine to Visopsys? http://www.visopsys.org/

I'd say no. It's newhere near POSIX compatible. And it's "The window library" has nothing to do with X11 API.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:52 pm

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Max Barney <[email protected]> wrote:

Is it feasible to port Wine to Visopsys? http://www.visopsys.org/

Doesn't seem to be POSIX based nor does it have X. Does have
multi-threading and elf executable support though.

Would be a lot of work, but the source is there for wine and visopsys.
You'd likely need someone very familiar with visopsys. Patches
welcome.

--
-Austin

Max Barney · Post by **Max Barney** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:28 pm

Would it even be worth porting? I mean I am sure very few really use it. Do they?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:32 pm

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Max Barney <[email protected]> wrote:

Would it even be worth porting? I mean I am sure very few really use it. Do they?

I've never heard of it until you mentioned it, and I browse
alternative/obscure OS's a lot, so I'd say no.

Of course, for someone using it who needs wine, it'd be a big benefit.

I presume you use it and want to use wine, which is why you asked?

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-Austin

Max Barney · Post by **Max Barney** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:45 pm

No I actually don't use it, but it is just me and my morbid curiosity.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:53 pm

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Max Barney <[email protected]> wrote:

No I actually don't use it, but it is just me and my morbid curiosity.

I don't think it'd be worth the effort. Considering that OpenBSD has
lots of problems, and IS POSIX compatible, you'd have a hell of a time
getting this to work. Cygwin/msys are even worse.

That said, I'm a portability nut and am downloading it now to see how
the compile goes. I won't put much effort into it though.

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-Austin

Max Barney · Post by **Max Barney** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:11 pm

Austin you crazy guy!

Be sure to tell me how it goes!

In my experience the Live CD works in Virtual Box But installing it does not.