Today I’ve installed emby server and between the processes I seen this interesting approach :

/usr/local/bin/dotnet /usr/local/lib/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -os freebsd

It seems that we can run some Windows application using dotnet and not wine. I’m not a programmer,but I find this approach interesting because it could expand the Windows applications that I can run under FreeBSD,maybe without having all the problems that we have using wine. Anyway I don’t know what are the limits of this approach. But I know what I want to do : try to run Firefox using dotnet,doing something like this :

/usr/local/bin/dotnet /usr/local/lib/mozilla/system/firefox.dll -os freebsd

No idea if this can be done,anyway. Suggestions,links and examples are welcome.

PS : why I want run Firefox for Windows when I can run the native version for FreeBSD. Let’s say that I want to learn how dotnet works and because I want to try an experiment. I want to run Firefox for Windows because I want to check if Widevine will work and if I can watch the DRM protected contents of NetFlix. Keep in consideration that on FreeBSD widevine is not supported on Firefox.