running windows mobile applications on openmoko

[jeremy jozwik]

so how much space would such an adventure take up?
or could it be placed on the sd card?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, mobi phil<mobi at mobiphil.com> wrote:
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> without knowing the depth of WINE, I assume there are following things
> inside:
>
> 1. an executable loader/remaper/dynamic linker etc.
> 2. mapping windows system/kernel calls to linux system/kernel calls
>
> the same two things should be implemented... Why? because there are tons of
> useful applications on windows mobile. Both 1 and 2 the more they would be
> deeper embedded into an openmoko device, more people would consider the
> linux device as an alternative... When I mean deeper embedded, means closer
> to kernel... The more layers are between the slower the application will
> run.
>
>
>> afaik, wince has nothing in common with windows except the manufacturer,
>> the name and some ideas of gui design.
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> well from programmers point of view, they are quite close to each other. The
> main thing, gui programming is probably 60% of the main Win32 API of
> windowsXP/NT etc.
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