Hello,
for 64-Bit, the code in dlls/twain_32 should be compiled into a library installed as twaindsm.dll instead of twain_32.dll, since Windows applications do expect a 64-Bit Data Source Manager to be named twaindsm.dll.
How could that be done?
Background:
wine includes an interface from the TWAIN interface common in Windows to the SANE interface common on Linux. This is dlls/sane.ds, which is in TWAIN speak a "Data Source". This allows to use most scanners supported by SANE from WINE, without caring about any special drivers. Which is a pretty cool thing.
64 Bit TWAIN is somewhat exotic, since Microsoft is pushing towards their WIA interface and does not include a 64-Bit Data Source Manager with Windows. The 32-Bit Data Source Manager shipped with Windows is TWAIN_32.DLL.
This DLL is under control of Microsoft and the TWAIN organization cannot update it, so they choose to name their update DSM "twaindsm.dll". I found some more information on that here:
https://github.com/twain/twain-dsm/blob/master/TWAIN_DSM/src/readme.doc%5D(h...)
This twaindsm.dll is available in 32-Bit and 64-Bit. And so the only 64-Bit DSM that application programs expect is twaindsm.dll. There are hardly any 64-Bit TWAIN drivers available on Windows.
Irfanview 64-Bit uses twaindsm.dll if installed and spawns a 32-Bit EXE if not.
Older versions of 64-Bit Libreoffice for Windows used twaindsm.dll. New Versions start a 32-Bit process to use 32-Bit TWAIN.
The code in the dlls/sane.ds searches for "twain_32", and I know two ways to solve this.
What I don't know is how to change wine so that it compiles dlls/twain_32 to twaindsm.dll for 64-Bit Builds only and deploy that dll to the wine prefix.
Any suggestion of how to do that?
Yours
Bernd Herd
:-)
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Bernd Herd