Hi all:
I have a very elementary question. How does the Winodws program run in Unix. For example, i write a program where i call the CreateBitmap() method, what happens. How is a dll called in the unix environment. From what i know, unix dlls are .so files. From the wingdi.h file in the wine\include directory, how does the unix OS know how to resolve the WINAPI call. If i am right, windows dll's are implemented in unix, how is this done. I'm kinda flustered at the moment, would appreciate the help Thanks, Preetham.
Preetham wrote:
Hi all:
I have a very elementary question. How does the Winodws program run in Unix. For example, i write a program where i call the CreateBitmap() method, what happens. How is a dll called in the unix environment. From what i know, unix dlls are .so files. From the wingdi.h file in the wine\include directory, how does the unix OS know how to resolve the WINAPI call. If i am right, windows dll's are implemented in unix, how is this done. I'm kinda flustered at the moment, would appreciate the help Thanks, Preetham.
Did you look at some of the documentation like developers-hints ? or winehq.com ?
the spec files are what map windows functions to unix functions. the loader can load both windows dlls and linux so's.
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