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There's way more to it than GUI libraries. That is a native Windows application calling Windows APIs. You can't run that Windows executable on Linux without Win

• charcircuit 3y ago
  >You can't run that Windows executable on Linux without Wine/Proton. That's like saying you can't run Firefox without freetype. Requiring a dependency doesn't make you no longer native. >Even a console application (no GUI) depends on operating system APIs. But the same API can be handled by different operating systems or libraries.
  • xcv123 3y ago
    > That's like saying you can't run Firefox without freetype. Requiring a dependency doesn't make you no longer native. At this point you're just trolling. Take notepad.exe and try to run it on Linux. It wont run because its Windows native. That's a native application. Same as 99% of games that aren't JVM based.