On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Praseed Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Siju , > > I am familiar with ReactOS initiative. ( I have not tried it yet though) > > > What i was putting forward is different. It is very hard to do Binary > Translation ( sort of ) for every foriegn Binary ( read Microsoft Windows > based Portable Executable ) recieved on Wine and React OS. The Wine project > and React OS can provide libraries for Every Windows API call. They cannot > reproduce the bugs in the Microsoft's Implementation. Too often in the case > of system software , bugs tends to cancel each other. That is why all > programs cannot run successfully at the Binary Level. >
Alright :-) I get it! > In my case , the source code base was recompiled on Fedora 10 and Debian > Lenny . The Windows API libraries were taken from Wine and the other > libraries , i substituted with it's Posix equivalent. So , it is not same as > Binary Translation. ( The terminolgy might get confused here ) > > > I am advocating the Source to Binary Translation using tools like GCC , Mono > , Harbour , GCJ. The empahsis is on porting applications than running it. > > To do these stuff , we need to build a community of developers who are > familiar with Cross Platform Programming , Polyglot Programming ( Mixed > Language Programming ) , Windows Programming ( Know your "enemy" well before > you attack them ) and Other System Programming toopics. I am talking about > building a community of developers who can tackle this. > > Moreover , i was talking about things which i have done (emphasis) recently. > I am willing to share this to anyone interested !. > Can I post your email to other relevant milinglists? thanks --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
