About this episode
Elizabeth Figura discusses the development of Wine and Proton, enabling Windows applications to run on other operating systems.
Elizabeth Figura is a Wine developer at Code Weavers. We discuss how Wine and Proton make it possible to run Windows applications on other operating systems. Related links WineHQ Proton Crossover Direct3D MoltenVK XAudio2 Mesa 3D Graphics Library Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub . Intro [00:00:00] Jeremy: Today I am talking to Elizabeth Figuera. She's a wine developer at Code Weavers. And today we're gonna talk about what that is and, uh, all the work that goes into it. [00:00:09] Elizabeth: Thank you Jeremy. I'm glad to be here. What's Wine [00:00:13] Jeremy: I think the first thing we should talk about is maybe saying what Wine is because I think a lot of people aren't familiar with the project. [00:00:20] Elizabeth: So wine is a translation layer. in fact, I would say wine is a Windows emulator. That is what the name originally stood for. it re implements the entire windows. Or you say win 32 API. so that programs that make calls into the API, will then transfer that code to wine and and we allow that Windows programs to run on, things that are not windows. So Linux, Mac, os, other operating systems such as Solaris and BSD. it works not by emulating the…
People in this episode
Host: Jeremy
Guest: Elizabeth Figura
Topics covered
- Wine
- Proton
- Windows applications
- Code Weavers
Keywords
- WineHQ
- Proton
- Crossover
- Direct3D
- MoltenVK
- XAudio2
- Mesa 3D Graphics Library
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Wine, Proton, WineHQ Proton, Crossover, Direct3D, MoltenVK XAudio2, Mesa, Windows, Linux, Mac
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