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Re: Windows Code running under Linux?



On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 02:36:12PM -0700, Brad Behm wrote:
> > > If one can get Linux to run Java code, why can't one have Linux run
> > > Windoze code?
> > > 
> > > Just a thought. If anyone has any comments/thoughts, etc., I'd like to
> > > hear them.
> > 
> > Beneath wine there is also WABI (commercial) and TWIN from www.willows.com.
> > 
> > But it does not compile under glibc, so we have to wait for a fix. Then
> > there most certainly will be a debian package.
> 
> Does someone know how soon the upstream maintainers of twin will switch to
> glibc? If this will be after the code-freeze for hamm (probably in Feb),
> we should IMHO consider to include a libc5-based version of twin in hamm. 

I tried about 15 days ago and the compile went fine. it just failed near
the end 'cause it was looking for a function that didn't appear in the
libraries I had installed on my machine (can't remember which one through)

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