I don't see that happening, ever.I think the goal of winelib is to make independent executable.
And i don't see any other goal.
I agree, but this is not currently possible. We hope to get there
someday (so it's a good thing if your app compiles under Winelib),
but this is a post 1.0 goal.
A Win32 program needs Win32 environment. Be that a registry, the Win32 APIs, or a forest directory structure and "My Documents" and "Program Files". While you may theoretically get the APIs by statically linking the DLLs into the executable, all of the rest are only available if Wine is installed on the machine. As such, I don't think a Winelib app will be able to ever live without a wine environment.
It is true that we can let go of the PE loader (in principle), but that is such a minor part of the grand scheme of things, that I don't see any reason to even attempt it.
As things stand, and it's certanly what I'm recommending to people - if all you want is to have your program function on an i386 Linux - just make sure the same PE works on Wine.
Shachar
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