Yeah, but the installers of VS/VS express have a long history of not working in wine as the exercise various levels of the window api which is not properly implemented in wine.
Posted Nov 19, 2008 18:59 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
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It really is doable - I have been cross-building Windows stuff on Linux much of this afternoon. I didn't set up the environment myself though - maybe the stuff was unpacked under Windows and just copied over.