Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-13 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [...] If wer'e on the subject, maybe we can enhance the stub files to contain, for each function, the versions of windows for which it is exported? Right now we have a slight anomality where even if we define the windows version as win95, we still

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-13 Thread Steven Edwards
Right, it wouldn't work because of the stubs and the relay debugging support. What I'm thinking of doing at some point is to allow using a .def as alternative to a .spec, for cases where you don't need the extra features, like when porting an existing dll to Winelib. But for Wine itself

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Greg Turner
On Thursday 12 December 2002 10:34 am, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Dimitrie O. Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre, mind if you explain in a few words the rationale for this one? Not that I have a problem with it, but I like to know where you're going... :) This is for import

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Greg Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure it's all quite evident to you and the other old-timers around here, so sorry to be slow! Also, if I'm asking you to write a novel, just let me know what I need to read up on. Thanks!! The idea is to mimic the way import libraries work under

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Steven Edwards
The actual implementation is a bit different between Windows and Wine: under Windows the import library has to be in the standard library file format that the linker understands (xxx.lib, or libxxx.a for gcc), and it is generated from the dll .def file. Under Wine we don't need a real library

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Steven Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So are we going to move away from using the *.spec files at some point and just use def's by themselves? I dont think this would work because of the stubs functions and I'm sure there is more about the .spec system I dont understand. Right, it

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Greg Turner
wow, I got a novel after all! Thanks for the helpful info. On Thursday 12 December 2002 07:38 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote: The main drawback is of course that it's easy for the dll and its import library to get out of sync and then you are in trouble, because the functions that you found at

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alexandre Julliard wrote: Right, it wouldn't work because of the stubs and the relay debugging support. What I'm thinking of doing at some point is to allow using a .def as alternative to a .spec, for cases where you don't need the extra features, like when porting an existing dll to Winelib.

Re: wine/ tools/winebuild/winebuild.man.in tools/w ...

2002-12-11 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On December 11, 2002 09:20 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Removed the -noimport flag in spec files. Alexandre, mind if you explain in a few words the rationale for this one? Not that I have a problem with it, but I like to know where you're going... :) TIA, Dimi.