[Fedora-packaging] Re: supporting closed source operating systems?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:25:51AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> OTOH, do we want to open the door to people running mingw-compiled  
> binaries under wine?  That seems like it might be a whole 'nother can of  
> worms, though.

You can actually run the executables under wine directly.  In fact you
just run them.  Assuming you've set up the ~/.wine/config file so that
paths to any non-standard DLLs can be found, then ./virsh.exe does the
right thing.

Setting up DLL paths correctly when mingw-runtime is installed was one
thing I was going to look at.

> One question for you guys.  Have you touched base with the Embedded SIG  
> guys?  (I saw Ralf replied to the packaging-list thread but nothing more  
> official than that).  They're doing work on cross compilers and seem to  
> have more similarity to your work than most of the other models I've  
> seen brought up here.
>
> Looking at their wiki page, I also see that they have a stub entry for  
> mingw:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Embedded

[To Ralf]  Is there a mailing list for embedded work?

Rich.

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