[Wine] Re: Copy Windows DLL

[jorl17]

James McKenzie wrote:
> ataide.carlos wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was reading the FAQ and it says there we should not use the existing Windows System Dir, but what if I make a copy of the folder so I can use it to increase functionality in Wine?
> > 
> > Will that work? I know that we can point certain libraries to an actual windows file.
> > 
> > 
> No, copying the entire Windows directory will NOT work.
> 
> Certain libraries will help, but they should ONLY be applied on a
> case-by-case basis and only if directed in the Applications Database .
> 
> James McKenzie


Exactly. Some core libraries, such as gdi32, for instance, can not be overwriten...

To be honest with you, I once got away with that (copying the whole dir). IIRC, the apps only fetched the missing DLLs. But this was a looong time ago and I would never recommend it to anyone now.

Cheers,

Jorl17