Middleware regression test suites, e.g. ACE

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> writes:

> Yes, I know about the problem. Apparently MSVC has some oldnames lib,
> so they go through the linker to do the aliasing:
> 
> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/01/0446.html
> 
> So the right solution if for us to do the same. I don't have MSVC, 
> but if I understand it correctly, we'll have to create an oldnames.dll
> that has the right forwards. Alexandre?

It's actually not a dll, only an import library. We don't have a way
of implementing that with our import mechanism yet; though we could
probably make it a static library at the cost of an extra jump for
each function.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com