On 20 May 2003, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
It basically means teaching ld.so about the PE format, and/or teaching our PE loader about the ELF format. We don't have a solution around the corner, and we are unlikely to have one any time soon IMO. The simplest approach is to build the Winelib app in PE format, but of course that's not ideal...
In other words will have to keep the wrapper for some time. That being said, we'll need to fix somehow the WINEDLLPATH problem, right now the generated executable simply does not run.