alt Hacker NewsNot necessarily. It could just rewrite the outer portion to be an ELF loader that then calls into a runtime that actually shims the syscalls for example. I don't think WINE does exactly this but it's not really transpiling either.
Not necessarily. It could just rewrite the outer portion to be an ELF loader that then calls into a runtime that actually shims the syscalls for example. I don't think WINE does exactly this but it's not really transpiling either.
You don't even need that, really; just have wine load the PE binary into memory and hand it a bunch of DLLs that use Linux syscalls under the hood. It's less transpiler and more of a funky dynamic linker+loader plus libraries.