I'm looking at what is done in Winetools (no, this is not another WineTools discussion ;-) ) as far as the DllOverrides and it has generated a few questions. Here are a couple of lines from the wt-config.reg file:
"*"="native, builtin" "*autorun.exe"="native,builtin" "msi"="native, builtin" "odbc32"="native, builtin"
Can somebody explain the lines with an *? Does the "*" mean that if the driver, dll, exe in question is not listed in the DllOverrides section, that it defaults to using the native version of the file and, if not available, then tries to find and run a builtin version?
In the case of the "*autorun.exe", does it literally me that any .exe file with a name ending in autorun would use a native version first, like a normal wildcard would be used? That wouldn't make sense to me because there is no file that matches that description in my .wine directory,. In fact, the only copy of autorun that I can find on my system is the autorun.exe.so from cxoffice.
I would appreciate all the enlightenment I can get on this subject.
Thanks.
Rich Gilson wrote:
I'm looking at what is done in Winetools (no, this is not another WineTools discussion ;-) ) as far as the DllOverrides and it has generated a few questions. Here are a couple of lines from the wt-config.reg file:
"*"="native, builtin" "*autorun.exe"="native,builtin" "msi"="native, builtin" "odbc32"="native, builtin"
Can somebody explain the lines with an *? Does the "*" mean that if the driver, dll, exe in question is not listed in the DllOverrides section, that it defaults to using the native version of the file and, if not available, then tries to find and run a builtin version?
"*" no longer does anything, and should be removed from registries. It's original intent was to force using native dlls over builtin dlls whenever found. It encouraged people to copy all the dlls from a windows install into their .wine, and was therefore removed.
I will have to assume that "*autorun.exe"="native, builtin" was blindly copied from CrossOver, as there's no autorun.exe in Wine.
Mike
On Friday 14 April 2006 10:50, Mike McCormack wrote:
Rich Gilson wrote:
I'm looking at what is done in Winetools (no, this is not another WineTools discussion ;-) ) as far as the DllOverrides and it has generated a few questions. Here are a couple of lines from the wt-config.reg file:
"*"="native, builtin" "*autorun.exe"="native,builtin" "msi"="native, builtin" "odbc32"="native, builtin"
Can somebody explain the lines with an *? Does the "*" mean that if the driver, dll, exe in question is not listed in the DllOverrides section, that it defaults to using the native version of the file and, if not available, then tries to find and run a builtin version?
"*" no longer does anything, and should be removed from registries. It's original intent was to force using native dlls over builtin dlls whenever found. It encouraged people to copy all the dlls from a windows install into their .wine, and was therefore removed.
I will have to assume that "*autorun.exe"="native, builtin" was blindly copied from CrossOver, as there's no autorun.exe in Wine.
Mike
But, if the file with the * in front of it exists, what would be Wine's behavior towards it. What I mean is, what does the * in the file name mean to Wine? Is it just a standard wildcard to match many files to one entry?
Rich
Rich Gilson signman359@gmail.com writes:
But, if the file with the * in front of it exists, what would be Wine's behavior towards it. What I mean is, what does the * in the file name mean to Wine? Is it just a standard wildcard to match many files to one entry?
The wildcard means that it matches that file in any directory. The same entry without wildcard would match only when loading from the system directory.
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