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You probably already know or have heard about the project WINE: Windows API on top of X and Unix

winehq.com 

I first heard about it more than 10 years ago when it started. Today I rediscovered it again and was really surprised. I was looking for one NT status code I couldn’t find in MS official documentation and found it here:

dlls/ntdll/error.c

In order to run Win32 programs WINE emulates all API calls including OLE32, USER32, GDI32, KERNEL32, ADVAPI32 and of course, NTDLL:

dlls/ntdll
dlls/ole32
dlls/user32
dlls/kernel32
dlls/gdi32
dlls/advapi32

Plus hundreds of other components. All source code is located here:

http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/

So if want to see how particular function or protocol might have been implemented hypothetically by Windows OS designers it is a good place to start.

- Dmitry Vostokov -

           

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