headless question, and IPC question

[Richard Cohen]

Ken Larson wrote:
> Well I am actually using a command-line with CL to compile it, but it 
> was true that I had a WinMain instead of main.
> 
> I've changed the WinMain to main, but this doesn't seem to be the issue.
> 
> The issue appears to be initializing winsock.  The following simple main 
> program, when compiled with CL, and run with wine, requires an X display:
> 
Your minimal winsock program doesn't need X when cross-compiled with 
mingw, and runs happily using winetty.drv

$ i586-mingw32msvc-gcc winsock.c -l wsock32

$ WINEDEBUG=loaddll DISPLAY= ~/wine/wine-20050830/wine ./a.exe
...
trace:loaddll:load_builtin_dll Loaded module 
L"c:\\windows\\system32\\winex11.drv" : builtin
trace:loaddll:MODULE_FlushModrefs Unloaded module 
L"c:\\windows\\system32\\winex11.drv" : builtin
trace:loaddll:load_builtin_dll Loaded module 
L"c:\\windows\\system32\\winetty.drv" : builtin
$

Richard.