[GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Thu Jan 23 11:52:43 EST 2020


On 2020-01-23 11:42 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE.
> That's a Good Thing.  But it isn't working to improve WINE.

'The Wine 5.0 update 
<https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob_plain/wine-5.0:/ANNOUNCE> 
takes advantage of this two-way street, introducing Portable Executable 
(PE) modules, which are built in the Windows binary PE file format 
that's used in executables and DLLs.

According to Wine developers, now the "PE binaries are copied into the 
Wine prefix instead of the fake DLL files", making the prefix look "more 
like a real Windows installation, at the cost of some extra disk space."'

Where do you think that PE stuff came from?



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