System DLLs

[Quentin]

Thank you or your very informative post.  I will update my .wine/config
right away!

:)
Quentin.

<lawson_whitney at juno.com> wrote in message
news:20011129.172751.134657512.1.lawson_whitney at juno.com...
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Quentin wrote:
>
> > Are there "builtin" wine implementations of common Windoze DLLs (ntdll,
> > kernal32, comdlg32, winsock etc) and if so, where do they reside?  I am
> > trying to get my own application to run using wine (without a recompile)
and
> > it continues to ask me for common windows dlls.  I would like to try to
get
> > my application running without having to copy over all of the relevant
> > windows dlls as I am trying to get my app running without any actual
windows
> > binaries.
> >
> > help me, I'm pulling my hair out!
> > Quentin.
> >
> If your app is looking for system dll's with, say, CreateFile you have
> to put a file there for it to find, in whatever unix directory you have
> told wine is "System".  Consider my expurgated .wine/config:
>
> WINE REGISTRY Version 2
>
> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/gp/windose"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "/gp/windose"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [wine]
> "Windows" = "C:\\windows"
> "System" = "C:\\windows\\system"
> "Temp" = "e:"
> "Path" = "C:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;c:\\Program
Files;j:\\lccpub\\bin"
> "Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
>
> # <wineconf>
>
>
> [DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt"       = "native, builtin, so"
> "*"            = "builtin, so, native"
>
> [AppDefaults\\juno.exe\\DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt"       = "native"
> "riched32"     = "native"
>
> [AppDefaults\\netscape.exe\\DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt"       = "native"
>
> I could make a nice advapi32.dll this way:
>
> touch /gp/windose/windows/system/advapi32.dll
>
> When the app goes after a dll with LoadLibrary of GetFileVersion.. it
> gets what the Wine administrator tells Wine it should use.
>
> Notice the [DllOverrides].
>
> Wine has a large collection of builtin dll's.  Depending what --prefix
> wine was configured with (default is /usr/local), builtin dlls are in
>
> ${prefix}/lib
>
> and are named libkernel32.so, libntdll.so, and so on.  Indeed Wine can
> not use windows kernel, user, ntdll, or gdi.  If you tell it to, the
> best you can hope for is a nice clean crash.  I recommend you use no
> native windows dll's except msvcrt, unless your app insists.  Mine won't
> run without native riched32.dll.
>
> Lawson
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