DLL Load Question: Please Help!

Bill Medland billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Tue Feb 1 15:34:41 CST 2005


On February 1, 2005 11:53 am, Sergey Efimoff wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Bill Medland wrote:
> >> I have windows binary-only, third-party .DLL library without any
> >> source
> >> files.
> >> I would like to use it in my unix-based project, which is compiled
> >> with
> >> usual GNU C compiler. Wine documentation says Wine is able to load
> >> external .DLLs, but does not explain how to implement such ability in
> >> userland
> >
> > (Unless things have changed without me noticing)
> > You are going to have to investigate WineLib.  You can't simply link
> > Wine into
> > an existing unix executable,  Because of some low level stuff Wine has
> > to be
> > the main process.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot use Wine as a main process (did you mean the
> stuff
> which is now made by preloader?). My project is a complex
> multi-threaded application,
> and the DLL mentioned above is to be only the small part of it. If I
> had to use
> this DLL in a simple application, I would certainly used Wine as the
> main process.
>
> So, is it unreal to use windows DLL as a child instance? By any means?
>
> Bye.
I believe so.

One option you might want to consider is placing the Windows DLL in a server 
process of some sort and using tcp/ip or some other IPC to talk between the 
two processes.  Then one process can be unix and one wine.
-- 
Bill Medland
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