Steven Edwards [steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com] wrote:
I think it would be good in testing Wine/ReactOS vs Windows for Winelib applications developers. You can make a dummy file in your application directory called application.exe.local to force Windows to use the dlls in the local directory. So say you have IEXPLORE.EXE you would create IEXPLORE.EXE.LOCAL and drop the Mingw compiled dlls in to the application folder and see how it runs.
Why would you need the .local file? Has there anything changed in XP or 2003 which would prefer Windows or system DLLs over local DLLs in the same directory as the calling executable? I always was under the impression that the executable directory was the first to be searched by LoadLibrary() for a DLL and it has worked that way for me in the past, too. Rolf Kalbermatter