• Mark T <Mark_member pathlink.com> Jan 15 2005
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Jan 17 2005

Mark T <Mark_member pathlink.com> writes:

For simple cross platform GUI projects, I was thinking of using SDWF with
Winelib http://www.winehq.com/ on Linux. SDWF looks like a good design (nice job
Stewart) and it seems I would only need to replace windows.d with something like
wine.d when compiling on Linux.

Questions:

1) Would I have difficulty linking since Winelib uses C code with the WINAPI
calling convention (gcc on Linux can compile this stuff)?

thanks

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Mark T wrote:
 For simple cross platform GUI projects, I was thinking of using SDWF with
 Winelib http://www.winehq.com/ on Linux. SDWF looks like a good design (nice
job
 Stewart) and it seems I would only need to replace windows.d with something
like
 wine.d when compiling on Linux.


I've just looked at it, and it seems an interesting idea - getting 
Windows apps to compile and/or run under Linux.  Though I wonder how 
they got on with copyright issues when it came to effectively rewriting 
Windows.  Anyway, if you can get it to work, thanks!

 Questions:
 
 1) Would I have difficulty linking since Winelib uses C code with the WINAPI
 calling convention (gcc on Linux can compile this stuff)?


That's the same as the regular Windows API uses?  AIUI this basically 
corresponds to extern(Windows) in D.  So I guess it's a question of 
whether DMD/GDC under Linux supports extern(Windows).  Does it?

Stewart.

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