Re: How to Calling PE Dlls on linux??

[trulyliu]

2007/8/20, Damjan Jovanovic :
> On 8/20/07, trulyliu  wrote:
> > hi:
> >
> > I am sorry to disturb you with a question about calling PE Dll on linux.
> > This is really an old question.
> > I found the sameness issues in mail list.
> >
> > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2003-December/thread.html
>
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-November/thread.html#41917
> > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2004-August/014685.html
> > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-August/050619.html
> >
> > I have tried the ways discussed in these threads。
> > But it's not clear enough how to do this.
> > So I send this mail to you for some help.
> >
> > I have a PE Dll named Arithmetic.dll which exports a function,
> > it's prototype is:
> > void sort(unsigned int*, int num)
> >
> > I want to call the function in my Linux App.
>
> You can't, it's not supported (yet), but what you want is the Wine
> plugin API (http://wiki.winehq.org/WinePluginApi).
>
> At the moment you have 2 options:
> - Make a Windows application instead of a Linux application.
> - Make a winelib application which will require wine to run but can
>
> access Linux libraries as well (with some restrictions, eg. you have
> to use Windows synchronization primitives instead of the pthreads
> ones).
> > I used winedump to generate a spec file
> >
> > winedump spec Arithmetic.dll
> >
> > This comand generated three files: Arithmetic_dll.h Arithmetic_main.c
>
> and
> > Arithmeticspec.
> > What's the next exactly step I should do?
> > What's the usage of the three files?
> > And wow could I use them?
>
> #include <windows.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>      HANDLE h;
>      void (/*WINAPI?*/ *sort)(unsigned int,int);
>      unsigned int *nums = malloc(sizeof(unsigned int) * 4);
>      nums[0] = 3;
>      nums[1] = 2;
>      nums[2] = 1;
>      nums[3] = 0;
>      h = LoadLibrary("Arithmetic.dll");
>      sort = GetProcAddress(h, "sort");
>      sort(nums, 4);
> }
>
> winegcc main.c -o main
> ./main

I have tried these code, It works well. Thanks a lot.
Could I use gcc/g++ instead of winegcc/wineg++ ???
mplayer use gcc as it's complier？ What's the mystery in it?
> > I made reference to mplayer's implementation,
> > It's code is a little clutter， and I don't have experience on MS D-Show.
> > Could you give me some simple sample codes ??
>
> MPlayer's code is GPL, so if you use it your code will be GPL too.
> > Best Regards.
> >
> > --
> > [e-mail]
>
> Good luck
> Damjan