On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Hi!
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I could not find any answers in the archives or by Googling...
Here's the situation: I have a Windows DLL and a small Windows program that calls functions from this DLL. The Windows program does not have a GUI (it's command-line based.) I have the C source code for this program, but don't have the source code for the DLL. I built the program with Visual C and was able to run it under WINE just fine with wcmd.
Now, I want to run this program natively under Linux - I mean, I don't want to run wcmd because that requires an X server.
The first question is: is this possible? (have a Unix program that calls functions from a native Windows DLL). I started experimenting with winelib, but am not sure if this is the correct way...
AFAIK, it is the only way.
If this is possible, how should I do it? I ran winemaker, configure, make, but am getting errors from winbebuild.
See "man winemaker". You might have to fiddle with its options, or even hand edit a Makefile.in and rerun autoconf.
Summarizing: I have the C source code. This C program calls function foo() that is in a Windows DLL. I want to run this program under Linux without the need for an X server. The program calls gets(), printf(), etc. I want these functions to be from my Linux's libc, not Windows'.
A winelib program is sort of a Linux program. If it doesn't import msvcrt nor crtdll, C function calls will resolve to the Linux libc, and it has access to the Linux fd's and environment (if Linux is Wine's host *NIX OS).
You get this letter from pine, by way of a little winelib program that reads Linux stdin and stuffs it into an ole storage object outbox.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Eloy.-
P.S. I read the winelib user guide, but couldn't find the answer there. If it is there, it's not clear to me :(
Doco is not our strong point, but we try.
Lawson -- ---oops---
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