winelib

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, carl wong wrote:

> Has anyone have any succes in building a Windows application, on Linux,
> using winelib???

Not exactly a windows application, but this letter will be carried from
pine to juno's outbox (a storage object) by a little winelib program I
wrote.  It does exactly what I meant it to do.

> I followed the steps in the online documentation and didn't work.  I used
> winemaker to create  some of the configuration files. I then ran ./configure
> to generate the Makefile and then I ran make.  It compiled the sources fine
> and it also created the binary.  But the binary file is nothing but a link
> to "wine" and when I tried to execute the binary, it came back with missing
> arguments error.
>
> Any ideas???
>
What do you mean, "missing arguments error?"  You will get more specific
answers if you will quote error messages exactly.  Otherwise I just have
to guess.  What I guess is if you have Wine installed, and you get your
systems administrator to install the .so file that is named the same as
the binary in the same directory as wine, then maybe it should work.  If
you don't have such a .so file, your make failed, I think.  Oh, you need
that symbolic link to wine, too, and it must actually point to the wine
binary.  When wine is called by a symbolic link this way, it knows to
load and run a .so file of the same name.  It is just the easiest way to
set up winelib with the new ability to import symbols from either
builtin or native dll's  as you choose at runtime.

or make the symbolic link point to the real wine binary if you don't
want to install it.  Then you can run it as ./binary from the source
directory.

Winemaker give you a good point to work from, but sometimes you need to
hack the Makefile or do some little bit by hand.

Lawson

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