[sane-devel] Running a scanner's Windows application under an emulator?

[stef]

Le Thursday 12 November 2009 02:24:18 Mike B., vous avez écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I plan to purchase a scanner which is not yet supported but SANE but it
>  will be supplied with a Windows scanning application.
> 
> Is it possible to run such an application under an Windows emulator like
>  wine (until SANE supports the scanner)? has anyone actually done this?.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike.
> 

	Hello,

	from the doc on winehq (http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-
to-configure , section 3.3.5), wine is using SANE to provide TWAIN support. So 
I'm afraid it won't work.
	Running your scanner from a vmware windows guest OS will work.

Regards,
	Stef