>I need to port fairly large WinAPI-heavy application to Linux. After some >googling it becomes clear that there's nothing except for Wine/Winelib >which is *huge*. However for at least most basic WinAPI functions it looks >fairly easy to just re-implement it via Boost/STL/libc/Linux syscalls. Why >there's nothing small like this already? >... we need to either re-implement around >200 WinAPI functions (mostly events, mutexes, semaphore, sockets, file and >folder operations) or to rewrite the entire thing from scratch. Using >Winelib directly is not an option due to the nature of the app.
I think there have been several such compatibility layers. http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/ for instance. Wine's the only one that has really tried tor run everything. Why can't you just bundle wine? - Dan
