Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

saagarjha · on March 11, 2020

For context, this is used in the hardness for avscript, which is currently on the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22544554

dang · on March 11, 2020

A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405810

steerablesafe · on March 11, 2020

Very nice. I wonder if rr can be used as well for reverse debugging a windows DLL on Linux.

ptah · on March 11, 2020

can this be used to run windows VSTs on Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology

fit2rule · on March 11, 2020

Programs like Airwave and Reaper can already be used to run Windows .DLL's on Linux without modification - or compilation. I've been using a few Windows-only VST Synth plugins on my Linux DAW for years ...

monocasa · on March 11, 2020

VSTs are given the raw HWND to do their drawing, so I think you'd need a good chunk of WINE too to do their work.

anfilt · on March 11, 2020

I think VSTs pass native resources to the plugin. However, there are VSTs without GUIs, but this says nothing about what other APIs a VST may use.

I imagine there might be some VSTs that don't use a GUI that can run.