#54 add support for win32s in windows 3.1

[John Steele Scott (t-tec)]

The following is a reproduction of a message I sent to
the mailing list titled "what do I need to run win32s
on dosemu?". Stas asked me to file it here, since
currently this is not supported:

I have been been trying to find a setup where I can run
Borland C++ 4.5 on a
GNU/Linux box. Wine can't handle this application due
to some ring 0
instructions.

I can get the 16-bit parts of Borland C++ working under
windows 3.1 on
either MS-DOS 6.22 or a recent version of FreeDOS. I
would now really like
to get the 32-bit tools working as well. Borland
supported this on Windows
3.1 using win32s. However, I have been unable to get
this installed
properly.

The win32s installer complains about not finding
SHARE.EXE, but continues
anyway. But when I try to run the example Freecell
program, I get the error
"Improper installation. Win32s requires W32S.386 to
run. Re-install
Win32s."

Has anyone got Win32s working under dosemu? What
versions of
dosemu/windows/os2/ms-dos/win32s do I need? I am
currently using dosemu
1.3.3.

[Stas Sergeev]

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By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing.
The win32s support that dosemu has (currently not
activated) is completely stolen from wine. There is no
other source it could come from. So, even if we implement
the (few) missing functions and activate it, it will
still not work better than wine.
So your best bet is to ask the wine folks to implement
the missing parts for you - the chances are much higher
than with dosemu. Dosemu is not for the windows apps
after all, whilst wine is.

[John Steele Scott (t-tec)]

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Thanks for the suggestion. I follow this up with Wine sometime.

This is kind of a hybrid situation I guess, because I want
to use the 16-bit and 32-bit compilers together (this is
actually for a commercial product, where we ship a 16-bit
version to Windows 9x users and a 32-bit version to the XP
users). I imagine that Wine may not be interested in
supporting the 16-bit (DOS?) compilers.

If all else fails, maybe qemu will be able to do what I want.

[Stas Sergeev]

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I imagine that Wine may not be interested in
supporting the 16-bit (DOS?) compilers.
Please put the facts straight: if it is a 16bit win16
program, then we may be able to help. If it is a DOS
program, then we most certainly could help. If it is
a win32s program, then Wine devs may help (or may not,
but offer them some money then, and they may reconsider :-)

If all else fails, maybe qemu will be able to do what I
want.
As a last resort this may help, but I think win4lin
is a best solution here (commercial though, thats the
problem)

[Jamie Marchant]

I would also like too see Win32 and .vxd support in the future, just so I have a "complete" Windows 3.1 virtual environment. It's not urgent though and for me it doesn't have to run better then Wine.

[Stas Sergeev]

Try hx dos extender.

[Jamie Marchant]

Hmm... that's looks interesting I'll give that a try. Thank you.

EDIT: Oh I see that comment was ment for John.