amd64/104311: ports/wine should be installable on amd64
Pete French
petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Fri Oct 13 03:55:59 PDT 2006
> That won't work with wine, I'm fairly certain. In order to look
> sufficiently similar to a Windows environment, you have to have
> something that looks like DLLs. Wine, just like Windows, has a
> gazillion dynamically loadable libraries, for that reason.
> Run-time linking is very much part of the windows experience...
Ah, O.K. - do theres a Unix linkable shared library to match each
Windows DLL ? Didn't realise that, I assumed it just used the actual
Windows DLL's directly somehow.
The other part of the question about making ports link staticly still
stands though - anyone know of an easy way to do this ?
cheers,
-pete.
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