diff --git a/documentation/faq.sgml b/documentation/faq.sgml index 1e3fa1981db..e66bc1a3b1e 100644 --- a/documentation/faq.sgml +++ b/documentation/faq.sgml @@ -485,19 +485,26 @@ - Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows. + Some people are working on getting Wine code to compile on Windows + using one of the following projects as a basis: - Cygwin ( - http://www.cygwin.com/) + Cygwin + (http://www.cygwin.com) - Reactos ( - http://www.reactos.com/) + MinGW + (http://www.mingw.org) + + + + + ReactOS + (http://www.reactos.com) @@ -505,9 +512,21 @@ There's some progress, so a Wine version that's usable on Windows might be available at some time. + + Part of the rationale for these projects is to find out areas where + Wine portability is lacking. This is especially true of the + ReactOS project which is a reimplementation of the Windows kernel + and should thus be able to reuse most of Wine dlls. + + + Another reason for pursuing these projects is to be able to + replace a single Windows dll with its Wine counterpart. Besides + being a good test for the Wine dll, this lets us detect cases where + we made incorrect assumptions about how the dlls interact. + - + What do I need in order to use Wine?