>
> len = utf8zestimate(searchPath);
>
> is shorter than:
>
> len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, searchPath, -1, NULL, 0);
>
> by 6-1 = 5 parameters,

> It's also completely non-standard. In Wine, we use Windows APIs wherever
> possible.

I think we could handle standardization through providing necessary functionality and covering 

that functionality by testing. Do you have testing for windows api's MultiByteToWideChar/... ?

Btw - noticed that wine is using 2 = sizeof(wchar_t), like it's in windows at the moment, but

in linux sizeof(wchar_t) == 4, so suspect my code won't work out of box. Need to check deeper later on.


> Yes, but I would like to start from basics - enable functionality initially, and worry about which dll
> exports and what later on. I think we could have even our own (application) specific "standard" API.
>
> Btw - I have tried to load from wine / LoadLibrary linux shared object, but could not. Tried something like this:
>
>    void stackCallbacker()
>    {
>        printf("%s", g3::internal::stackdump().c_str());
>    }
>
>    typedef void(*func)(void);
>    typedef void(*fcallFunc)(func);
>
>    int main(int argc, char **argv)
>    {
>        //HMODULE h = LoadLibraryA("dll.dll");
>        const char* dllName = "dll";
>        //const char* dllName = "/mnt/c/Prototyping/dbghelp2_dev2/bin/Release_x86/dll.so";
>        HMODULE h = LoadLibraryA(dllName);
>        if (h == 0)
>        {
>            printf("Failed to load '%s'\n", dllName);
>            return 0;
>        }
>
>        fcallFunc fc;
>        *((FARPROC*)&fc) = GetProcAddress(h, "DoTestCall");
>
>        printf("Calling dll -> DoTestCall ...\n");
>        fc(stackCallbacker);
>        printf("call ok.");
>
> But wine refuses to load dll.so by relative or absolute path. Does wine supports this ?

> It works if the .so file was built as a Wine library, with an embedded
> PE header. It's not possible to load a plain .so lib, since there's no
> way to return a valid HMODULE for it.

Do I need to use wine specific compiler or linker for that purpose ?