WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Vincent Povirk
<madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> They really are very simple wrappers around Unix system
>> calls.  There's no reason you can't write your own wrappers
>> in assembly inside your winegate, they would probably
>> only be ten lines or so each.
>
> According to the man page, dlopen() is a library call, not a system
> call. And a real .dll can't link to a native library, which is the
> problem we're trying to solve.

*blush*

OK, so maybe we're back to the question: should wine be
exporting wine_dlopen etc. via a PE DLL?