loading and running windows dlls in a linux program

Bill Medland billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Fri Jun 6 17:58:46 CDT 2003


On June 6, 2003 08:36 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
> >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?
> >
> >Stefan
>
> This will, in fact, affect your entire app. You can, however, create a
> stub utility. This stub will be the winelib. You should be able to use
> it from a regular ELF exec, and communicate with the PE DLL that way.
> Not sure what the implications be in your case, however.
>
>           Shachar

I wish it were possible.  However from what I remember from previous 
discussions, wine has to be the main ELF executable.  That's why I need a 
client-server setup to allow PHP under Apache to be able to talk to a Windows 
exe running under wine.

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