On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:09:37 +0100, you wrote:
Rickard Svensson wrote:
My short question is: Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work on a Linux system.
Answer: almost certainly yes, with a catch:
- Wines current builtin DCOM is not up to scratch for what you want,
and it will take a long time to get there. Really, given how unglamourous network DCOM hacking is and how few people have worked on it, it's unlikely to happen until funding is available.
- So ... you'd have to use "native" DCOM. This is a redistributable
that can be downloaded from microsoft.com and installed into Wine. You'd have to read the EULA very carefully but I suspect you need a Windows license in order to use it.
Mike, I was hesitating to give this answer. Typically OPC will be used distributed, over an ethernet link. Did anyone test wine & native DCOM in such a way? Can you actually communicate between an application running under Wine with an application that runs under real Windows?
Rein.