[Wine] Porting Windows app to Linux: How to access Linux devices?

[Peter L Jones]

Hi,

You could try taking a look at something like the wineasio code.

Whilst this isn't a device driver as such, it does demonstrate how to marry the
WINE and Linux worlds together (one way).

http://sf.net/projects/wineasio

(I'm only caretaking the project, really...)

-- Peter

chrislpnt wrote:
>> First of all what are you trying to archive?
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> The application's GUI uses Borland's VCL library so that it can't be easily ported natively. I have tested this part under Wine, though, and it runs fine. If all the I/O the application required was usual, Wine-supported stuff (file and network access, etc.) I would be done here and could use the same binary. However, some of the I/O has to come from a driver that is not supported in Wine. The hardware works perfectly under Linux but obviously has a different API than in Windows. So, I have two elements:
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> - Windows GUI code running under Wine
> - Linux drivers resp. modules supporting my hardware. They can be used via IOCTL and network socket calls.
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> I am trying to "marry" these two and am looking for the best method. Certainly the cleanest way would be to write a device driver for Wine but I was wondering if there was an easier way to interface to the Linux host from a Windows application running under Wine.
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