Thanks to all that responded.
Just a quick summary of where I stand: after reading the message from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com I decided to try to make my current Windows console program work under Wine without X. I unset my DISPLAY variable a run Wine like this:
wine -- myprogram.exe param1
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this worked like a charm! The program read its input from stdin and sent its output to stdout; no messing with X!
wine -v reports 20030115.
It'd be nice to compile myprogram.c as a Linux program, and have that program use the Windows DLL, but I don't really know how to do that, and the docs. are not clear enough for me (or seem out of date.)
So, for now, I am all set and happy that myprogram.exe works just fine without X :)
Thank again.
Cheers,
Eloy.-
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 07:09:48PM -0400, 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...
If this is possible, how should I do it? I ran winemaker, configure, make, but am getting errors from winbebuild.
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'.
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 :(