Where is Kernel32.dll ?

[Informações]

Hey all,

I posted this message at the tail of another thread but I think it lost 
its visibility, as the subject was quite different. Here it goes again:

I was performing some naive tests on my Windows box and got stuck on 
something that looks quite dumb... I just can't find the
KERNEL32.DLL library that I expected to be inside the downloadable 
"wine-dlls-0.9-mingw.zip" package. ;.(

Can anyone confirm me if this DLL has successfully being build on 
Windows using MingW ? If so, where should I look for it ? If not, which were 
the caveats ?

Just another piece of information: I extracted the contents of this 
package in a temporary directory and placed the notepad.exe executable along 
with a dummy notepad.exe.local file inside the same directory. When I try to 
run notepad, I have an error message that reads something like:

"It wasn't possible to find the entry-point for the procedure 
wine_get_unix_file_name in dynamic library kernel32.dll"

The message is written in portuguese, and this is the best translation 
that I was able to do. It looks like any other Wine library tries to call a 
procedure from the Wine kernel32,dll but ends up calling this procedure on 
the native kernel32.dll. Is that right ?

Well... I really need the functionality implemented by the Wine 
kernel32.dll available on Windows and I'm willing to contribute to have this 
done.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

FLu-X

[Alexandre Julliard]

Informações  writes:
> The message is written in portuguese, and this is the best translation 
> that I was able to do. It looks like any other Wine library tries to call a 
> procedure from the Wine kernel32,dll but ends up calling this procedure on 
> the native kernel32.dll. Is that right ?
>
> Well... I really need the functionality implemented by the Wine 
> kernel32.dll available on Windows and I'm willing to contribute to have this 
> done.

There is no chance at all that Wine's kernel32 (or other core dlls
like gdi32 or user32) would work on Windows. What are you trying to
do?

[Ivan Leo Puoti]

Informações wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I posted this message at the tail of another thread but I think it 
> lost its visibility, as the subject was quite different. Here it goes 
> again:
>
> I was performing some naive tests on my Windows box and got stuck on 
> something that looks quite dumb... I just can't find the
> KERNEL32.DLL library that I expected to be inside the downloadable 
> "wine-dlls-0.9-mingw.zip" package. ;.(

That's because wine's kernel32.dll can't compile for windows.

Ivan.