[Wine] Re: Problems creating a winelib-based program

[Fleabag]

Hi Daniel

Firstly, thanks for your response... answers below.

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> Fleabag <madparrott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a proof of concept, I have started small. I wrote a simple Windows
> > DLL with an exported function which returns a string, and built it on
> > my Windows PC. I wrote a OS X program (source code is in
> > "simpleapp.cpp") which loads the DLL (using LoadLibrary), locates the
> > function (using GetProcAddress), calls the function and displays the
> > string to stdout.
>
> I do not quite understand. If this program uses the Win32 API and will
> be compiled using winelib, why do you call it an "OS X program"?

It really has to be an OS X program. Think of it as something written
99% for the Mac, using pure Mac system calls etc, but one tiny corner
of the program actually calls into a Windows DLL to gain some
functionality, and tries to use winelib to get that access.

As an analogy, its a bit like fitting a Sony CD player into a Ford car
to replace the old cassette radio in the Ford, the Sony gives you a
better sound than the old Ford one would have done, but you don't have
to buy an entire Sony car to fit a Sony stereo...

I hope that makes things clearer...


> > I used winemaker to generate the Makefile, then built it using make.
> > This automatically linked the executable with winelib. The result is a
> > file called "simpleapp.exe.so". It does execute and function as
> > expected, BUT, unfortunately cannot be run standalone, it seems it
> > *has* to be launched using "wine simpleapp.exe.so". If I try to run
> > simply "./simpleapp.exe.so" then I get the message "Bad program (or
> > shared library)".
>
> As I see it, you want a library and not a standalone executable. What
> happens if you tell your application to use simpleapp.exe.so as a
> plugin?


I hadn't got that far, that seemed more complex than trying it as a
single Mac-built exe and a single Windows-built DLL. Yes you're right
that is what I ultimately want, but I was trying to start simple :-). I
have actually written a further application ready to call
simmpleapp.exe.so as a plugin, but haven't succeeded in building it
yet, I get some unresolved library calls.

Cheers, Fleabag.