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WinForms is a layer built on top of raw Win32. So it's not portable. Even though Wine exists, Win32 calls can only be made from Win32 programs, not native Lin
by Dwedit 7mo ago
WinForms is a layer built on top of raw Win32. So it's not portable.
Even though Wine exists, Win32 calls can only be made from Win32 programs, not native Linux programs. So a WinForms app using the latest dotnet would need to run the Windows version of dotnet under Wine, and not use the Linux version of dotnet.
- DeathArrow 7mo ago>WinForms is a layer built on top of raw Win32. So it's not portable. Neither are SwiftUI and AppKity.
- pjc50 7mo agoTrue, but: Microsoft haven't made a better UI framework that's portable to Windows yet. Everything after WPF has near zero adoption, including (critically important!) by Microsoft itself.
- anthk 7mo agoMono used to have libwine embedded. You know, libwine exists as a library running and compiling Win32 natively under Unix. Instead of PE binaries you would run ELF Linux ones, but with nearly the same outcome.
- Dwedit 7mo agoEvery time I tried following alone with the winelib/winemaker documentation, I always ended up with an ELF that had to be invoked using "wine" to run. Nothing that could self-load any of the wine dependencies.
- anthk 7mo agoMono supported WinForms. But IDK how did they integrate it with the CIL. But for sure they used WineLib.