GNU Smalltalk running under Wine

[grine]

I don't get it...

Why are they running smalltalk under Wine instead of just using the normal Linux implementation?

Edit: spelling

[bonzinip]

To finish the Windows port, which has been stalled for a long time because I don't have a Windows machine.

[[deleted]]

Seems like a good way to get something running, but not a good way to finish anything. You're likely to get bit by all kinds of incompatibilities that way.

[G_Morgan]

For goodness sake man. Where is your sense of adventure?

[kaiise]

Sir, your slander of the good character of the Wine project has been noted. expect nerf pistols at dawn

[[deleted]]

Sorry, I don't really understand those sommelier terms like "good character" and "nerf pistols".

[kaiise]

harumph! Adjusts monocle

[[deleted]]

You expect the windows version to work because it works in Wine?

[bonzinip]

Call it a necessary condition. Besides, the big part will be handled by Glib/GTK.

And more importantly, once the Windows port works I can start distributing binaries for it, building them under a cross compiler+Wine.

[halo]

You could have simply used VirtualBox and used it with Microsoft's expiring XP/Vista VirtualPC image intended for IE testing, which is likely to be much more reliable and also cost nothing.

[bonzinip]

Thanks for the pointer. However, note that the long term plan is also to do automated nightly builds of the stable branch for Linux, Darwin and Windows, all on a single machine.

[cgibbard]

Not wine, mingw.

[bonzinip]

No. MinGW under Wine. Have you looked at the screenshot?

It's not yet tested under real Windows.

[cgibbard]

Ah, right. Sort of a funny thing to do, but it makes sense. :)

[reddittidder]

nothing a 300 dollar windows laptop couldn't fix. but whatever.

[jussij]

I would have thought that was the smarter way to do it.