Re: [MLUG] Compiz (was "Parallels vs. VMware Fusion for the Mac?")

[ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Chances are they just took the Windows client, compiled against  
Transgaming's Cedega (which is really just Wine with some proprietary  
extensions!) version of winelib and are using the wine interpreter to  
translate any DLLs they couldn't recompile or to which they didn't  
have the source.  The Sims for Linux did the exact same thing a few  
years back.

For all intents and purposes, it sounds like the Eve folks are using  
Cedega to build their Windows source on Linux and Mac OS X.   
Transgaming has a product called Cider that is basically the Windows  
API for OS X to aid in porting games - a bigger version of winelib.   
I doubt either of the new clients required many, if any, changes from  
the original Windows version.

Very cool.

  ryan woodsmall
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On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Rick wrote:

> I'm not exactly sure how they did it, but the new Eve linux client  
> is an
> interesting beast so far. It installed a .cedega directory in my / 
> home/
> folder, but appears to just be chunks of Cedega code wrapped around  
> the
> Eve client. I would wonder how much effort it will take to support  
> both
> (or all three, in this case) platforms if Cedega is running a HAL
> between the client and the system? A lot more, or hardly any more
> effort? It seems that it came to life much more quickly and cleanly  
> than
> some of the past Windows -> linux ports I've seen.
>
> I've only logged in a couple times today since installing it, and
> certainly haven't stressed it much, but the new client appears pretty
> solid as far as performance goes compared to the Windows client.
>
> Rick

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