Re: Quicktime movies
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > its highly unlikely this would work anywhere except the i386
> > archtecture. i haven't checked but i suspect this involves wine.
>
> No, I don't think it involves WINE at all. As I recall him telling me before,
> the binary is just object code that gets loaded dynamically, and that the hack
> was to get it to load on Linux.
>
> But I think you are correct in your assessment that it would probably only
> work on i386, due to the differences in endian.
Not to mention that the library would contain _ia32_ (aka i386) code as well...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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