[Mono-list] SWF Programming Question

[Jonathan Pryor]

There is a difference between ``wine'' (the executable) and ``WineLib''
(the Wine library collection).  ``wine'' will only run on x86 platforms
(in practice) because it's used to directly execute x86 programs; it
doesn't provide processor emulation, just Win32 API emulation.

``WineLib,'' on the other hand, is the libraries used to implement the
Win32 API.  These are (in principle, and often in practice)
platform-independent.  You can take a Windows program, compile it on
PowerPC, link it against the Wine Libraries, and it should work.

You can go to www.winehq.com and search for "WineLib PowerPC" to get
some results to Wine Weekly News articles that touch on this subject.

 - Jon

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 12:17, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Since it seems that SWF would need Winelib, does
> that mean that C# programs that use SWF will only
> be able to run in x86 platforms ?
> 
> --
> Paulo Pinto
> 
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