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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Dear Dan Kegel,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>while trying to find a way to use windows DLL from
inside Linux application I've found this link:</FONT></DIV><FONT color=#6d6a5e
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href="http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-April/033257.html">http://</FONT></FONT><FONT
size=3>www.winehq.org</FONT><FONT color=#6d6a5e size=3><FONT color=#6d6a5e
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<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><PRE><FONT size=1><EM>On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, batt21 <</EM></FONT><A href="http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users"><FONT size=1><EM>wineforum-user at winehq.org</EM></FONT></A><FONT size=1><EM>> wrote:
></EM></FONT><FONT size=1><EM> i'm trying to download winelib package, where can i find it?
Just use Wine, forget about Winelib.
What are you trying to do?</EM></FONT></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#6d6a5e size=3><FONT color=#6d6a5e size=3><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2>So, as I read here:<FONT color=#6d6a5e size=3><FONT
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href="http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Using_a_Windows_Dll_for_Linux">http://</FONT></FONT><FONT
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size=3>/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Using_a_Windows_Dll_for_Linux</A></P></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em"><EM>A Programmer
queried [May 07]: I have a third party library which is a Windows DLL. Is it
possible to use Wine to call its functions under Linux?</EM></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em"><EM>D. Jovanovic: You
can't link a Linux applicaton to a Windows DLL. The project which would allow
you to do that is called the wine plugin API<SPAN
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href="http://wiki.winehq.org/WinePluginApi" rel=nofollow><EM>[1]</EM></A><EM>,
but it isn't written yet. What you can do at the moment is write a winelib
application, that is, a Windows application compiled with winegcc which can
use both Windows and Linux APIs. [Wine devel May 07]</EM></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em"><FONT
size=2>winelib is what I need. I could of cause use some manually written
asm adapters - I think I could :-) - to call wine dlls from Linux apps
but it would be more tempting to have some more advanced tools.</FONT></P>
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size=2></FONT> </P>
<P dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em"><FONT size=2>So,
I would be glad to get advice from you.<BR>Thank you,<BR>Alexei
Strakhov</FONT></P>
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