Re: wine64 (devel) and NetBSD 8.0

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

Hello,

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 03:15:22PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:31:19 +0200
> tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Has anybody managed to have a working version of Wine on NetBSD 8.0
> > amd64?
> 
> Never tried it, so not really answering your question, however wouldn't
> it be easier to run a separate Windows VM for such binaries?

This is for processing data and the Windows "imposed" binaries (because
of libraries) are only the first part of the process: the bulk of
the treatment is afterwards on a POSIX node (actually a NetBSD one).

For sharing data with Windows (and MacOSX), a good work has been done,
on NetBSD by Reinoud Zandijk, for UDF support.

But this will impose to process data under Windows (in a VM) and, later,
when this is done, to retrieve the data in a shared storage to
process it afterwards. Since I have Windows nodes available (almost
just for this), it is not a problem and a VM will just take processors
time on a node (with NetBSD) that is already doing quite some work.

I would have liked to test piping the processes just invoking wine (for
console programs) as a part of the pipe, not writing huge amount of 
temporary data being a huge win...

Best,
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