WineForXP

Announcement: I have switched almost entirely to using Linux over the past several months. Along with that, when I have previously tried to compile Wine on Cygwin, I have not made much (if any) progress. Therefore, I am stepping back from the WineForXP project.

But, this does not mean the project has to end. I will be glad to assist anybody who wants to pick up the project. I am including some links below to webpages with information on compiling Wine on Windows.

• https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More#Wine_on_Cygwin is the official Wine page for compiling on Windows.
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20160115055656/http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows is the older version with more information.
  
• https://sandboxie.com is a now-open source project that sandboxes Windows applications. This could be useful.
• http://colinux.org is a project to run Linux along with Windows without any virtualization. This project may be defunct, but could potentially be useful.
• http://kegel.com/wine/wow.html is Dan Kegel's attempt to build Wine on Windows. Appears to be at least five years old, but likely closer to ten years old.
  
• https://www.elpauer.org/2011/10/a-wish-a-day-14-wine-based-application-virtualization/ talks a little about what would go into building Wine on Windows.
  
• A search for "build wine on windows", "build wine on cygwin", or something similar will bring up a number of different pages and articles. If you tack "stackoverflow.com" onto the end of your search you may be more likely to get helpful results from people who were trying to compile Wine on Windows.

If anybody does try to build this, I would recommend building Wine on Cygwin. Cygwin is a project that lets you run Linux programs on Windows and even can give you a Linux GUI. A similar project is MinGW.

Of course, if your computer is powerful enough, you could simply install VirtualBox, create a Linux virtual machine, and install Wine on the virtual machine. For this you probably should have at least 2 GB of RAM in your computer so both Windows and VirtualBox have enough memory to function. You also should have at least 10 GB of free hard drive space.

 

If you do want to work on this project, please let me know.

 

How's the project going? I thought I read something on the Reactos forum about a Reactos fork involving WINE, so maybe some of what that project has done will be useful for this. I have X Windows compiled and working on Windows using MinGW (original 32 bit project). Would that be of any use for your project? The original post that got me started building X Windows on Windows was from the Wine site and the developer had been trying to get Wine working via X Windows.

 

As I mentioned above, I've stepped back from the project, but your X on Windows sounds like a viable route. I'd be interested to see what you could do with that!