I had an interesting thought the other day, and that is to having some built in support for forwarding windows dlls to linux .so's. A while back, I had worked on the CUDA wrapper, which basically just transfers the calls from the dll to so. At that point I didn't work on a CAL wrapper because there was not linux support from ATI with CAL. Now there is, and has been and someone has requested a CAL wrapper for folding@home. I've started the work on it but I have been thinking, that I think it might be benifical to have some sort of built in support in wine for this. A method for automatically sending calls made to a .dll to the linux counterpart .so, if one exist. The work involved with making a wrapper for CUDA or CAL isn't that much, it's fairly simple in the grand scheme of things. However I'm sure there must be a lot of 3rd party, non-microsoft libraries that have windows and linux counter parts, that both expect the same inputs and. I know wine already does a lot of this, but some sort of automation in the process, in which if a call is made to cudart.dll, wine sees it, and transfers the calls to cudart.so. The list of .dlls and respective .so s could simply be kept in the registry for easy editing, and adding of libraries without the need to recompile wine.
Hopefully I've put my idea across clearly. What are everyone's thoughts?
Thanks,
Seth Shelnutt