Fwd: "Out of Tree" DLLs

[Kai Blin]

Hi folks,

Tim asked me about this on IRC today, and I didn't have any good idea about 
it, so I'll just forward it to you people.

Cheers,
Kai

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Kai Blin schreef:
> Hi folks,
>
> Tim asked me about this on IRC today, and I didn't have any good idea about 
> it, so I'll just forward it to you people.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
>
> Onderwerp:
> "Out of Tree" DLLs
> Van:
> Tim Ansell 
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> Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:22:52 +1030
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> Hi,
>
> A long while back I wrote a "dll" which allows programs which use the
> ftd2xx.dll library to access hardware to do so under wine. There has
> been some interest in getting it working again.
>
> There are a bunch of stuff which need this, however it's very niche so
> the code is always going to be fairly crappy and not good enough for the
> main wine tree.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way for you to build this DLL easily
> without having to build the complete wine.
>
> You can find the code here,
> http://ftd2xx.cvs.sourceforge.net/ftd2xx/ftd2xx/
>
> It probably doesn't compile at the moment as it's suffered quite a bit
> of "bit rot" over the few years that I haven't touched it.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Tim Ansell

After trying a little I came to the following conclusion, assuming dll
is called foo.dll, exports are available as foo.spec and wine is
installed globally:

winegcc -D_REENTRANT -D__WINESRC__ $(CFLAGS) -o foo_main.o foo_main.c
winegcc $(CFLAGS) -mwindows -lntdll -lkernel32 -o foo.dll foo_main.o
-shared foo.spec
winebuild -w --def -o libfoo.def --export foo.spec

After that you just need to put libfoo.def and foo.dll.so in the right
place.

Hope this helps,

Maarten