Linux 下游戏玩家的福音，Alky，嘿嘿。
Linux 下游戏玩家的福音，嘿嘿。
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作者: binaryxie
发信人: binaryxie (清澈的勇气), 板面: OpenSource
标 题: http://www.alkyproject.com/
发信站: 飘渺水云间 (Mon Jun 19 13:40:00 2006), 转信
What is Alky?
Alky (pronounced "AL-KEE") is a tool that allows you to convert a Windo
ws executable to a Mac OS X or Linux binary. We are focused on high-end
gaming at the moment, though we will support other applications in the f
uture. Our binary translation layer is already working fully for OS X an
d Linux support is in progress. Of course, Windows applications use a ve
ry different set of libraries from Linux or OS X applications so we are
also working on a library called LibAlky that will provide those Windows
libraries to the application.
How is Alky different from Wine?
Alky may seem similar to Wine/libwine in many ways, but Alky differs on
a few major points:
1. Alky requires no Wine server-like software, reducing overhead gre
atly.
2. Alky converts binaries rather than running them through it at run
time, so a vendor can use it to port an application and ship with it wit
hout requiring any additional dependencies on the user's machine.
3. Since Alky runs at the binary level, applications can be ported w
ithout any access to the source.
4. Since Alky doesn't depend on access to the source to port applica
tions (as noted in #3) we can greatly clean up the APIs, so long as we k
eep them binary-compatible. This gives us a lot of freedom.
