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by kevincox 958 days ago
Yes, this seems fairly accurate. In fact I think Wine supports this mode where you link Wine into a "windows program" at build time to produce a "native" Linux executable. So basically the difference is that you target a POSIX API rather than Win32 and the backend implementation is selected at runtime rather than build time. But both projects have the same idea that they will implement a particular API on multiple platforms.