Re: Registering DLL's

[Jeff Smith]

> From: "Dimitrie O. Paun"
>
> On December 4, 2002 01:36 pm, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > Does anyone have any better ideas on what the "Right Way" to tackle
> > this item is?  I am sure that adding external functions that do not
> > exist in native versions is *not* the way.
>
> This was Alexandre's idea. Alexandre, a more detailed brain dump on
> the configuration stuff would be useful. For example:
>
> C.1 Merge configuration into the registry
>
> Any gochas? What would it take?
>
> C.5 Make Wine's DLLs register themselves to avoid manual merging of the 
> winedefault.reg
>
> How should this be implemented? See Jeff's questions.
>
> C.6 Write wine.inf script to setup a new Wine installation
>
> Do we have the code that executes .inf scripts? Is this one
> just a matter of writing the scripts?
>
> --
> Dimi.

For those interested, here are a couple of links relating to
the INF file format (1), and the SetupAPI (2).  I don't know
how complete our implementation is, but it can be found under
wine/dlls/setupapi.

1.) 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/install/hh/install/create-inf_4l47.a...

2.) 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/install/hh/install/setupapi_2faf.asp

-- Jeff S

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