On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
A Win32 program needs Win32 environment. Be that a registry, the Win32 APIs, or a forest directory structure and "My Documents" and "Program Files". While you may theoretically get the APIs by statically linking the DLLs into the executable, all of the rest are only available if Wine is installed on the machine. As such, I don't think a Winelib app will be able to ever live without a wine environment.
Of course, you will need wine installed. I wasn't clear in my response, but I thought he refered to the fact that now we have to start Winelib apps as: wine myapp.so
Ideally, we can just link it to a real executable, without all the wrappers that we have now. Not that it would change much, you will still need the DLLs, etc. but it would be a bit cleaner. Meanwhile, if you use winegcc you are isolated from all these ugly details...