On 03/08/2012 05:40 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Hi,
> I cross-compiled a simple Application with the preview of MSVC 11 to ARM.
> After some minor changes to Wine i was able to run it on my Pandaboard using
> the native msvcr110.dll.
> One thing i noticed in the cross-compile environment is that there are much
> less libraries available for ARM, that's mostly because the win32 API isn't
> meant to be ported entirely, instead ARM Apps should be based on WinRT.
> Still i was able to dynamic load functions from dlls available in Wine beside
> static loaded functions that also worked.
>
> In short:
> The good news: The ABI is compatible (to armel gnueabi)
> The bad news: no fully win32 API on ARM
Bad news? Quite the contrary. Good use case for Wine on Windows.
> Maybe my small changes to Wine will make it into 1.5.1 :) At least i hope so.
1.5.1 or 1.4.1?
bye
michael
