Linux program that uses DLL?

Raul Dias chaos at swi.com.br
Mon Aug 19 08:37:18 CDT 2002


Axel Siebenwirth <axel at hh59.org> wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>i need some clarity about this is  at all possible with wine or not.
>
>I have a 3rd party 16-bit DLL that is actually a driver for an external
>device.
>Is it possible to write a program in Linux that uses this DLL?
>I've seen something about winelib that is responsible for DLLs but I have
>not found out whether this can be done and if so, how.
>

mplayer and aviplay uses windows dll codecs to [en|de]code audio and video.
I don't know if they rely on wine for this.
however, it is a place to start looking.

Note that Device Drivers/Vxds are a different kind of animal.


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Raul Dias




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