On 5/10/06, Mike McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think win32 and NPTL threads are compatible already.
Golly.
The issues I see for are reserving the right memory areas, setting up the large stack, establishing a connection to the Wine server and setting up the segment registers (%fs) so that the thread and process structures are correct. If somebody were to implement this for SoC, then I'd suggest they make a small static library to link against projects that want to import Windows DLLs using Wine, and then expose LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress somehow...
That all sounds pretty doable.
I don't think this is good for an SoC project, because the changes are small, and you'll spend more time arguing with Alexandre about the right way to do it than doing actual coding.
The changes may sound small to you, but they're probably a month's work for a newbie. The student could then spend the second month converting some open source project that currently has a hacked, embedded copy of Wine to use vanilla wine, maybe. I think it's perfectly appopriate, especially if we consider it a proof of concept and not something that has to be integrated into the Wine tree by end of summer to be a success. - Dan
