[ale] UNIX equivalent of Windows DLL

[Dan Newcombe]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Russell Enderby wrote:
> Actually not too long ago, it was mentioned that Borland's entire compiler 
> suite would be ported over to Linux.  That is my favorite development suite 
> anyhow.  It will bring thousands of apps to Linux overnight.  Linux is in 
> real good shape.

I don't follow the logic - how does having Borland compilers for linux
bring apps over?  All the compiler does is take WinMain, MessageBox, and
all the other Win32 calls and compile and link them.  Without having the
win32 libraries behind it, apps would still not work and probably not
compile on Linux.  Even if an app was 100% OWL (absolutley NO windows
calls), the OWL would still need to be rewritten to not use Win32.

There are twho things that'll get "thousands of apps to Linux overnight".
	- A working Wine
	- ALL of Win32/MFC/ATL, etc... ported to Linux.

I'll put my money on Wine