[Wine] Re: Where does wine look for the native dlls

wiead001 at yahoo.com.au wiead001 at yahoo.com.au
Mon Mar 19 00:54:32 CDT 2007


> > Hope I can get an answer on this issue.
>
> You can :^)
Thanks big nose

> Wine looks on the c: driver, in windows/system and/or windows/system32
>
> So if you want to use an existing windows partition, you should mount it
> (for example on /dos), and then in winecfg define the path of your c: drive
> as /dos.
When I installed wine, it made a drive_c directory with windows system
files in it and mapped that to c:, as you no doubt know. I assumed
that the dlls files in drive_c/windows/system32 were the built-in
libraries as they were part of wine (wine put them there).

So the files stored in the drive_c (in my case anyway) are the
"native" libraries. And the "built-in" ones are actually part of the
code of wine itself, and not stored in my user directory.

I would not have realised this on my own any time soon.

Thankyou for your answer. I understand now.

Alex



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