[Wine] Running XP programs in wine

[Dotan Cohen]

On 20/02/2008, A. Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are licensing issues with using Microsoft files, so I would recommend
> against it.
>
> Some dlls are available through 3rd party resources, some are available
> through Microsoft with packages, and some are reverse engineered by the Wine
> group.
>
> There are also some non-free applications such as Cedega and
> CrossOver-Office that supply needed DLLs.
>
> -Tres

Thank you Tres. I'll start googling the topic, as until now I was
unaware of the technical details of dlls and such. If I have a legal
Windows license, then I should be able to use the dlls, no?

Dotan Cohen

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