Winelib

[Segin]

Michael King wrote:

>Segin/Joris
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>Thanks for all the help.
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>Seems to me that wine and winelib may not be the way for us to go.
>
>We have a functioning application development language that runs on Windows plus virtually
>all flavours of Unix/Linux but the only GUI implementation is Windows.  We were looking
>for an easy way to port the environment to 'X' windows without having to recode all the
>GUI interfaces.
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>>From your response you mentioned that is was possible to create a wrapper -- that might
>work since I have no problem changing the way 'winmain' gets it parameters since this will
>be a 'wine' unique implementation.
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> BTW: Somebody should change the description about notepad and mention that it actually is
>a script file.
>
>Regards
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Segin" <segin2005 at gmail.com>
>To: <mike.king at pvxplus.com>
>Cc: "Joris Huizer" <jorishuizer at planet.nl>; <wine-devel at winehq.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:33 PM
>Subject: Re: Winelib
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>>Joris Huizer wrote:
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>>>Michael King wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm looking into porting our graphic application language to Linux
>>>>usign WineLib but
>>>>having some trouble just getting started.
>>>>
>>>>I downloaded and installed wine-0.9.8-SuSELinux92.i586.rpm for our
>>>>SUSE 9.2 system and
>>>>then tried to create the 'notepad' program using the instructions
>>>>given on
>>>>http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winelib-guide/winelib-getting-started .
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately after following the instructions I ended up with a
>>>>'notepad.exe.so' not a
>>>>simple ./notepad file.
>>>>
>>>>Our goal is to create a true executable file, not a ".so" library
>>>>that needs to be invoked
>>>>using Wine.
>>>>
>>>>Have the build instructions changed?
>>>>
>>>>Michael F. King
>>>>PVX Plus Technologies, Ltd.
>>>>www.pvxplus.com
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>With winelib, there is no way to make a "true" executable without any
>>>dependencies on wine;
>>>you could make a wrapper script so that the user does not have to type
>>>'wine' anymore - this is what winelib used to do, which made the
>>>'notepad' file in the documentation (that part of the documentation is
>>>a little out dated I'm affraid)
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>
>>>Joris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
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>>It would also be suitable to make a psudeo-main which calls all the Wine
>>init functions, sets up the wineserver, etc., but doing this in my own
>>experience has produced a semiworking loader which is unable to pass any
>>arguments to the WinMain() funtion of the program. (the passed arguments
>>are literally 0)
>>
>>You're barking up the wrong tree, and by the way, the little './notepad'
>>was a shell script thgat used the 'wine' loader to load the
>>notepad.exe.so file.
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It would be best to take a look at the source code to the wine-preloader 
program. It will shed light onto the task at hand.