From: Shachar Shemesh (linux-il_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 17 Jun 2004 - 09:16:39 IDT
Micha Feigin wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:16:20PM +0300, linux-il_at_amos.mailshell.com wrote:
>
>
>>If you have a Windows on your computer then you should be able to plug its
>>NTFS driver into linux. Forgot what's the name of the project which
>>makes this
>>possible but you know the drill (google). It was published a few months ago.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Thanks, I saw that one, didn't try it yet (don't really need the write
>access and don't have the time). I believe you are referring to captive
>http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>
>What I was looking at was running wine using the native windows
>libraries to hopefully get some more stability with the programs.
>
>
You won't get any.
Running Wine off a native installation was, once upon a time, the
default. The builtin Win DLLs were not good enough for anything else.
About a year and a half ago I submitted a patch to "wineinstall" that
makes using the native installation optional, even if one is accessible
(i.e. - no longer default). A few days ago talks started about removing
"wineinstall" altogether, as wine can, more or less, now do the standard
"./configure, make depend, make, make install". This means no more
support for installing wine on an existing windows installation. To the
best of my knowledge, no wine hacker works in this configuration, and
have not for some time now.
In short, I doubt it will give you extra stability.
On the other hand, it MAY help to get some native DLLs into wine, but
this is a process to be done selectively.
Shachar
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