POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Compiling stuff : Re: Compiling stuff Server Time
1 Oct 2024 09:23:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 16 Dec 2008 08:07:41
Message: <4947a81c@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> I'm not saying it's impossible to make cross-platform games. But when
> you have a huge codebase invested in DirectX, it would be tantamount to
> a complete rewrite to move to OpenGL.

They could link their program to Winelib. It would still be a native Linux
binary, and they can use Linux-specific stuff, but the Windows-specific
stuff they use would be handled by Wine.

That's how Picasa for Linux was made (a photo organizer by Google).


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