Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Rein Klazes]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:09:37 +0100, you wrote:

> Rickard Svensson wrote:
> > My short question is:
> > Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work on a Linux system.
> 
> Answer: almost certainly yes, with a catch:
> 
> 1) Wines current builtin DCOM is not up to scratch for what you want, 
> and it will take a long time to get there. Really, given how 
> unglamourous network DCOM hacking is and how few people have worked on 
> it, it's unlikely to happen until funding is available.
> 
> 2) So ... you'd have to use "native" DCOM. This is a redistributable 
> that can be downloaded from microsoft.com and installed into Wine. You'd 
> have to read the EULA very carefully but I suspect you need a Windows 
> license in order to use it.

Mike, I was hesitating to give this answer. Typically OPC will be used
distributed, over an ethernet link. Did anyone test wine & native DCOM
in such a way? Can you actually communicate between an application
running under Wine with an application that runs under real Windows?

Rein.
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