newbie question

[Michael Cardenas]

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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michael cardenas
lead windows compatibility engineer
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