Using WineLib directly
Marcus Meissner
marcus at jet.franken.de
Fri Apr 19 11:46:36 CDT 2002
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:45:05AM -0700, Zavada, Ed wrote:
> I've seen this question asked before, but there was never a response to the newsgroup.
>
> We'd like to use WineLib to provide implementations of the Windows
> calls in our application's Linux build while we work on a full blown
> port. So far, all the documentation requires that we use winebuild and
> generate a .so that is loaded by the wine server. Is this truely the
> only way to do this?
The .so is loaded by the 'wine' binary, not the server.
But actually yes, most sublibraries require wineserver to be running
to be used.
> Is there no way to just use the various libraries independent of wine
> server? For instance, I'd like to be able to make a call to MessageBox()
> from a native linux binary, then later eliminate the need for it (since
> this will ultimately be a console app).
I do not think so.
Ciao, Marcus
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