newbie question
Michael Cardenas
michael.cardenas at lindows.com
Tue Jul 9 21:05:54 CDT 2002
Preetham wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have a very elementary question. How does the Winodws program run
> in Unix. For example, i write a program where i call the
> CreateBitmap() method, what happens. How is a dll called in the unix
> environment. From what i know, unix dlls are .so files. From the
> wingdi.h file in the wine\include directory, how does the unix OS know
> how to resolve the WINAPI call. If i am right, windows dll's are
> implemented in unix, how is this done.
> I'm kinda flustered at the moment, would appreciate the help
> Thanks,
> Preetham.
>
Did you look at some of the documentation like developers-hints ? or
winehq.com ?
the spec files are what map windows functions to unix functions. the
loader can load both windows dlls and linux so's.
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