loading and running windows dlls in a linux program

Stefan Sperling w9rk at dice.net
Fri Jun 6 05:29:10 CDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:23:50PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:47:31AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Wine invented something called "winelib executable". This is an ELF 
> > library that can also link to PE DLLs. It appears that your best bet, if 
> > you don't want to embark on massive copy/paste activity, is to create 
> > your util as a winelib. There are some disadvantges to that as well (a 
> > dependancy on Wine, for one).
> 
> Will this affect my whole app or can I tuck the winelib dependency away in a seperate module?
> Again, I bet there's a lot of documentation on that in the sheer amount of wine docs, is there?

I just found the winelib docs. I'll read them and come back if I have
further questions.

thank you
stefan





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