Re: wine/pthread broken in netbsd 4 beta

Brian de Alwis <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2007.01.14 23:37:51 +0000, Simon Truss wrote:
>> If you know more than the PRs are you saying that the Q3 and Q4 branches 
>> are broken for NetBSD then? If so I will try patching an old pkgsrc/wine 
>> into Q4 and see how far I get. Then there is something that I can 
>> compare against to find the cause.
>
> I know little more about the causes than stated in the PRs.  From
> perusing the Wine mailing lists and FreeBSD and OpenBSD chatter,
> the problems seems to be related to both threading and the expected
> memory layouts.

I don't think this is really the reason, or if it is, somehow we had
things working better before. At one point I was able to get Wine
working quite well with many apps, and that stopped. I don't think the
threading stuff etc. explains why it broke.

Perry

> As posted to the Wine mailing list (in 2005!):
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> Win32 threading is broken or semi-functional on every OS except Linux.  The
> work that needs to be done requires an extremely deep understanding of the
> threading implementation on those operating systems: only somebody with a
> lot of expertise can do it. I would not expect this situation to improve
> anytime soon. For now I think FreeBSD is the closest you'll get to working
> threading on BSD.
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>
> <http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2005-February/016839.html>