Use WINE API from ELF application.

[John Found]

Is it possible to use the WINE functionality from inside regular ELF application. For example starting and debugging Windows application. Creating windows, etc.

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[Stefan Dösinger]

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Am 2014-05-03 12:17, schrieb John Found:
> Is it possible to use the WINE functionality from inside regular 
> ELF application. For example starting and debugging Windows 
> application. Creating windows, etc.
> Sort of. See http://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib . You can create a Windows
> application that is an ELF binary and can link normally to other Linux
> libraries. But this binary has to run inside a full Wine environment.

You probably want to simply do -luser32 -lkernel32 when linking your
application and not bother about the rest of the Wine environment.
Unfortunately this is not possible - there are parts of the Windows
API that need more than just a library, like the Windows registry.
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