Elizabeth Figura, a Wine Developer at CodeWeavers, speaks with host Jeremy Jung in regards to the Wine compatibility layer and the Proton distribution. They focus on a variety of particulars together with system calls, what folks run with Wine, how video games are constructed in a different way, conformance and regression testing, native efficiency, emulating a CPU vs emulating system calls, the position of the Proton downstream distribution, bettering Wine compatibility by patching the Linux kernel and different associated initiatives, Wine’s historical past and sustainment, the Crossover business distribution, porting video games with out supply code, loading executables and linked libraries, the distinction between person area and kernel area, poor Home windows API documentation and use of personal APIs, debugging compatibility points, and contributing to the venture.
This episode is sponsored by Monday Dev
