[Wine]dlls - still a newbie

[Scott Ritchie]

Where Wine's files are installed depends on how Wine was installed.  If
you installed from source, wine's binaries will likely be
in /usr/local/bin, and wine's built-in dll files will be
in /usr/local/lib/wine

If you installed from a package, this will instead be in /usr/bin
and /usr/lib/wine

Either way there's no need for anyone to really know that, unless you're
doing screwy stuff with the file system or multiple wine installs on the
same machine.

-Scott Ritchie

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 07:03 -0600, David L. Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 01 January 2005 03:44, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Most of the DLLs that Wine uses are stored in a global shared directory
> > for the system, and not in the fake windows drive Wine creates.  If Wine
> > can't find them locally,
> Please define locally. Hmmm. For that matter, could you define "global 
> shared"?
> "Global shared" calls to my mind a directory that all wine apps can use, but 
> that is what the fake windows drive is on real windows (I think). So you seem 
> to be saying that the fake system directory is not being used. That aside, 
> both are local - that is, not on a network. You may be saying that wine is 
> looking first in neither, but rather the built-ins internal to it, I guess, 
> when you imply that Wine looks locally. Or are the built-ins in the global 
> shared directory and that is local?
> 
> > Wine will look in its own folder.
> Which is the global shared, the fake windows drive, or something else?
> 
> > Simply try
> > installing and running the app without doing anything special before
> > mucking around with non-Wine DLLs.
> Yep. And the score is one app that seemed to work the only time I have tried 
> it. Considering my experience with the few others that I have tried, I really 
> ought to use it a couple more times before assuming it will work.
> 
> The implication of what you say seems that the installation of an app 
> automatically adds the dlls to the config file. Or maybe the implication is 
> that they *don't* add the dlls to the config file. If the last, then why 
> should I read about the dlls in the manual about the config file? Therefore 
> the first statement must be true.
> Or is all this a case of thinking too hard?
> 
> However, thanks for the good help.
> 
> blessings,
> David L. Smith
>