I have a project (http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux) which is a linux executable which provides access to Windows DirectShow filters (despite its name, the program should work with many Directshow Video codecs). Currently, it builds against a forked version of mplayer's 'loader' library, but there are stability problems with this solution (the 'loader' library many hacks to provide just enough infrastructure to the codec, and debugging issues is difficult due to the binary nature of the filter)
I found that building against winelib works quite well (once I found that I needed to define __MINGW__) and the stability is much better (in fact the program seems rock-solid now).
The problem is that I normally provide a static binary so that users on x86-64 can install it easily without needing a 32bit build environment and without me needing to provide packages for every distribution. The host app (Mythtv, mplayer, xine), can still be 64bit, since I use shared-memory and semaphores to communicate, and this works fine between 32bit and 64bit apps. It seems that wine is available for most 32 and 64bit distros (built in a 32bit chroot in the x86-64 case). My question is, is it possible to do a static-compile of my winelib app that will run properly on multiple distros and interface with wine correctly?
I'd be building against a fixed version of wine, (say 1.1.6 or 1.0, or whatever) but would want compatibility with whatever version the user's distro happens to provide (within reason). Is this possible?
Sorry if this doesn't exactly belong on the dev list, it didn't seem to fit the user list either, and I couldn't find a better place.
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Alan Nisota