post by unxed on May 11, 2008
In his excellent article, “Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems”, famous Joel Spolski writes:
Linux overcomes this barrier by supporting POSIX architecture (making easy to port software from UNIX systems) and also by supporting win32 API through WINE.
As it is declared on the home page of the project, WINE is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
As WINE it is API Layer based on POSIX, may it be possible to make a Haiku port of it? It could bring haiku a great number of running software (including FOSS, as most of it now has it’s own win32 ports).
I’m interested to hear from Haiku developers about this idea.
Thanks for your very interesting project!
post by koki on May 13, 2008
There was a BeWine project, but it doesn’t look like it has been actively developed for quite a while. You can find some info here:
http://bewine.loungenet.org
http://www.bebits.com/app/2388
The Wine FAQ at…
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index
…states that “porting efforts (BeWine) used to be pretty strong, but BeOS has severe limitations in Unix call support. The demise of Be further hampered the project though it might come back one day on one of the open BeOS projects.”
Hopefully someone will pickup BeWine or restart a port of Wine for Haiku some day.
post by darkwyrm on May 13, 2008
Joel isn’t necessarily correct in all cases. There’s quite a bit of software already available for BeOS, thanks to the dedication of many hobby programmers. All that’s missing is a halfway decent office suite, and even then, we’re partway there – all that’s really missing is features in Sum-It and there isn’t a presentation program. Don’t get me wrong, though, WINE would be a nice addition to Haiku. It’s just not the only hope of Haiku being mainstream at some point. 
post by mmu_man on May 15, 2008
It should be possible but remember X is not part of POSIX…
There is an X11 server for BeOS though so it should be possible to have something usable rapidly.
Or one could try to use http://sourceforge.jp/projects/bexlib/ but it’s not really finished.
There used to be something called WinBe, but it never really got finished either.
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