Re: HOWTO-winelib update

2000-07-11 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John R . Sheets wrote: [snip] My personal take is that none of the above files should be included. After all, the WineLib examples are targeted for developers, who should be able to install autoconf and libtool (and automake?). They are usually installed as part of a

Re: Link windows NT .lib

2000-07-11 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I was wondering if I could drop NT platform to use Linux with Wine. The only point left without an answer is how to link the MS lib with GCC under Linux. [snip] [snip] Let's see if I

RE: wine-patches problem

2000-07-07 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Francois Gouget wrote: [snip] Lots of stuff about files sizes. Even if the binaries are provided on a web/ftp site someone will have to download them and 2MB seems like a lot. For one Dll and an executable I would expect something like 30-50KB at most. How come

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-06 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, admiral coeyman wrote: [snip] My hand is up. My compilers are all legitimate. I got three coppies of Microsoft Visual C++ from Ollies, a local surplus retailer. I concurr, though. The source code makes a much better example than the binary.

RE: wine-patches problem

2000-07-06 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Christopher Morgan wrote: How big would the binaries for the programs be? I heard some mention of 2MB binaries, which is an expected size for a windows application, nothing out of the ordinary these days, but would that be 10-15 2MB files? Adding 10MB to the cvs tree

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Juergen Schmied wrote: The patch contains example programs including a windows dll and a windows exe. The net result is the tar file is about 2 meg. Is there a limit set someplace on the size of an email sent to wine-patches? Hmm, the cvs tree is text-only. Why do you

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Simon Harrison wrote: Forgive me for intruding (I'm not a wine developer) but I thought winelib was mainly for porting from Win32 - Unix. Why would someone porting from Win32 *not* have access to Visual Studio? -Simon. WineLib allows you to use the win32 API under

wine-patches problem

2000-07-04 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, Last week I submitted a patch to the wine-patches list and it did not show up on the list. 24 hours later I tried again and still no show. I have been receiving other peoples patches. Today I sent a small test patch and it did show up on the list. Everything seems to work OK except for

Re: Symbolic links and CVS question

2000-06-28 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Eric Pouech wrote: "Wilbur N. Dale" wrote: Hello, I finished the example code for DLLs this week end and I am ready to submit a patch. However, before I submit the patch, I want to make sure I do not screw up CVS by using symbolic links in the source

HOWTO-winelib update

2000-06-19 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, I worked on some dll examples this week, but will not be submitting them until next week. I ran into a gcc bug that disappears every time you try to troubleshoot it. After some hair pulling, I found a work around. I managed to complete the examples (they run on my machine), but I have not

All these DLL questions

2000-06-16 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
This weekend I will be updating the HOWTO-winelib documentation. This week is DLL week and it seems we need this documentation yesterday. Lumin Software's local Windows guru has written a small sample program with a DLL. I plan to add this to the wine project on Monday. I will show the original

Bug report

2000-06-14 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
I was goofing off when I should be working and made the following observation. As I was reading the WWN, I played with an example using mshearts (on Win95 machine). mshearts has a score box that automatically comes up at the end of each hand. The program has correct behavior except for the the

tool/build questions

2000-06-13 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, During my writing of the HOWTO-winelib, two questions came up. 1. tools/build-spec.txt appears out of date. No "mode" is in the documentation. Are there other undocumented features? As best as I could read the source, the answer is no. 2. tools/build for WineLib users -- is there ever a

Re: Loading a DLL from a .so with libwine

2000-06-13 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bob Copeland wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the list and somewhat new to wine, so I apologize in advance if this is too easy, offtopic, or whatever. Despite much searching, I have not been able to find any information relevant to my problem. I'm trying to build a shared

Re: [Q] compiling mfc application with winelib

2000-05-30 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Vivek Dasgupta wrote: Hi, We managed to compile mfc using winelib after changes in wine header files. Also managed to compile a mfc based application with winelib. But on running the application gives segmentation fault. We have made spec file for application

MFC questions

2000-05-19 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, Over the past few months I have been working with wine and winelib in my spare time. Eventually I hope to port a Win32 app to linux using winelib. The next major hurdle in the port is MFC. I see two paths and I am seeking advice and help. 1. Compile MFC. Several years ago we (Lumin