On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:09:37 +0100, you wrote:
Rickard Svensson wrote:
My short question is: Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work on a Linux system.
Answer: almost certainly yes, with a catch:
1) Wines current builtin DCOM is not up to scratch for what you want, and it will take a long time to get there. Really, given how unglamourous network DCOM hacking is and how few people have worked on it, it's unlikely to happen until funding is available.
2) So ... you'd have to use "native" DCOM. This is a redistributable that can be downloaded from microsoft.com and installed into Wine. You'd have to read the EULA very carefully but I suspect you need a Windows license in order to use it.
Mike, I was hesitating to give this answer. Typically OPC will be used distributed, over an ethernet link. Did anyone test wine & native DCOM in such a way? Can you actually communicate between an application running under Wine with an application that runs under real Windows? Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes(a)xs4all.nl