Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

Very cool, to load .dll, so tests/builds/packaging can be run in Linux. There is also the possibility of signing .exe/.dll on Linux. AFAIK, the remaining stuff is to sign .msi files.

Re: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

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Post by tathougies » Wed, May 24, 2017, 12:02 AM UTC

Why not just use full-on WINE? The basic system calls are pretty much fully covered. It seems this duplicates a lot of work.

Re: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

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Post by Arnavion » Wed, May 24, 2017, 12:12 AM UTC

tathougies wrote: post #6

Why not just use full-on WINE? The basic system calls are pretty much fully covered. It seems this duplicates a lot of work.

Are the Windows API implementations of WINE usable by a native Linux program (eg as a library of some sort)? That seems to be the requirement here.

Re: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 24, 2017, 12:26 AM UTC

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Re: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

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Post by analognoise » Wed, May 24, 2017, 12:33 AM UTC

adrianpike wrote: post #4

gadnium79 wrote: post #2

why?

...why not?

I've always thought why is more important than why not. Example: "I'm going to hit myself in the dick with a hammer."

Re: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

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Post by psykotic » Wed, May 24, 2017, 12:35 AM UTC

This reminds me of a tool Jeff Roberts wrote at RAD Game Tools which would repackage libraries so they were loadable on Linux. At the time the motivation was that MSVC was generating much better code than GCC for Bink, so he'd compile on Windows with MSVC and cross-link to Linux with his custom tool.