Re: dll name length (was: Windows dll replacement with Linux library)

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On January 6, 2004 10:04 pm, Dan Timis wrote:
> I finally figured out what my problem was.  If the name of the library
> is "USBUtils" it works, if it is "USBDeviceUtils" it doesn't.  Actually
> the max length I can use is 11 characters.  That is probably 15
> characters including ".dll"
>
> In my config file all filesystems are "win95"  The version is "nt40"
>
> Is there any way to configure wine to support longer names?

Eric is right, I've run into the same problem (with visual-mingw)
some time ago. He fixed it way back in Sep, 2004, with this patch:

http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/09/0174.html

If you can't update to something newer, this patch is trivial
to backport in your tree. Please let us know if it helped.