3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 18, 2014 6:58 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
In reply to: 3.15 Merge window, part 2 by mstefani
Parent article: 3.15 Merge window, part 2

Work is in progress that adds integration with QEMU to Wine. It's used to run x86 binaries on ARM, but maybe it could be used to run 16-bit x86 applications in x86 long mode too?

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17701
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258506

3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 19, 2014 4:33 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (4 responses)

is this going to be the typical "let's fork the project and put a full version in the wine source, and then let them diverge" approach? or are they doing something more sensible this time?

3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 22, 2014 9:36 UTC (Tue) by mstefani (guest, #31644) [Link] (3 responses)

Hell no! Wine has so many external dependencies that importing them would be madness. And Wine needs only the qemu user space emulation for the application processes, the rest will run native. See page 8 on the slides from the FOSDEM presentation http://wiki.winehq.org/FOSDEM2014?action=AttachFile&d...

3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 23, 2014 20:22 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

well, from prior posts they imported a complete ldap server, a complete DNS server and some others, so it would not be impossible for them to pull in a complete emulator.

3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 23, 2014 21:08 UTC (Wed) by mstefani (guest, #31644) [Link] (1 responses)

Uh? Not sure where you got that info from but Wine has no DNS nor LDAP server, never had. And it always just linked to OpenLDAP, never imported its sources. The last "big" code import into Wine was libmpg and that was removed in 2009.

3.15 Merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 23, 2014 21:25 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I thought there had been posts here talking about this very problem and how they were now working to undo some of this.

It's very possible that this happened before 2009.