Using WineLib directly

[Marcus Meissner]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:45:05AM -0700, Zavada, Ed wrote:
> I've seen this question asked before, but there was never a response to the newsgroup. 
> 
> We'd like to use WineLib to provide implementations of the Windows
> calls in our application's Linux build while we work on a full blown
> port. So far, all the documentation requires that we use winebuild and
> generate a .so that is loaded by the wine server. Is this truely the
> only way to do this?

The .so is loaded by the 'wine' binary, not the server.

But actually yes, most sublibraries require wineserver to be running
to be used.

> Is there no way to just use the various libraries independent of wine
> server? For instance, I'd like to be able to make a call to MessageBox()
> from a native linux binary, then later eliminate the need for it (since
> this will ultimately be a console app).

I do not think so.

Ciao, Marcus