How to Call Native Linux Code from a Wine Process

The site arcanenibble.com has published an article titled “How to call Linux code from a Wine process,” describing a way to call native Linux code from a process running under Wine.

As a reminder, Wine is an open-source project that lets applications written for Windows run on Linux and other POSIX-compatible systems without using a virtual machine. To do this, Wine translates Windows API calls into the corresponding calls that the host operating system understands.

The approach described by the author addresses the reverse problem — calling code written for Linux from a Windows process that is already running under Wine. Such a capability is of interest to developers who want to combine components targeting different platforms within a single application, or to use existing Linux libraries without fully porting them to Windows.

A publication of this kind is typically aimed at systems-level developers and authors of compatibility tools who are familiar with Wine's internals and with the intricacies of working with ABIs and function calls at the boundary between two operating environments.

The material sparked discussion in the Lobsters community, where articles related to low-level development and cross-platform compatibility traditionally draw the attention of engineers working on Wine, Proton and related projects.

Source: Lobsters