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Offline P5music

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microcore & wine (windows) applications
« on: October 04, 2010, 09:29:33 AM »
Hello,
I would like to know if microcore can run windows graphical application through wine, being Xserver not present.
Thanks
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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: microcore & wine (windows) applications
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2010, 09:41:16 AM »
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Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=6241
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Offline curaga

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Re: microcore & wine (windows) applications
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 09:49:45 AM »
Where would it output?

If the app wants to pop a window, it needs to have a screen. Wine only does X11, so if there's no local X server, you'd need a remote one (for example over ssh).
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