Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
by bachmeier on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:32PM
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> The second version, using LSB, was worse, as they specify ancient libraries and things like OpenGL aren't handled properly.
That was a shame. There was a lot of hope for LSB, but in the end the execution flopped. I don't know if it would have been possible to make it succeed.
Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
by bandrami on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:02PM
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So this sort of bleeds in to the Init Wars, but there's a lot of back and forth about whether LSB flopped or was deliberately strangled by a particular player in the Linux ecosystem.
That was a shame. There was a lot of hope for LSB, but in the end the execution flopped. I don't know if it would have been possible to make it succeed.