Re: Wine on Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:18:16PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
>Hello people,
>
>I've managed to compile Wine on Cygwin. This is good progress, but not the end of the road -- I hope to get it to also run! :)
>
>Showstoppers:
>  -- {recv,send}msg
>  I understand these are not going to be supported anytime soon, but who knows?
>
>  -- we need to get the content of CPU registers when a signal occurs.
>  How can I do that under Cygwin? To see how we do it under Linux/*BSD, look at this:
>http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/dlls/ntdll/signal_i386.c?rev=1.21&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
>  -- we need to get/set a thread context
>  Again, how do I do that? Here is how we do it under other OSes:
>http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/server/context_i386.c?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
>Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/default.asp

This is the best pointer I could provide.  I just typed in "thread
context" in the search window and got lots of useful information.

FWIW, I still think that the whole idea of getting a Windows emulation
running on Windows using a UNIX emulator is really really odd.

cgf

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