Re: Windows system DLLs without Windows installation

[Andreas Mohr]

Hello David !

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:14:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Can you instead construct a system32 directory and populate it with symlinks
> to appropriate wine DLL replacements, for example:
> 
>    ln -s /opt/wine/lib/libshell32.so /opt/wine/share/system32/shell32.dll
> 
> The people can dynamically load them for resources or code without wine having
> to anything more special than check the magic number on the front of the DLL
> to see what type it is.
> 
> David Howells
Sure, that's what I'll be working on soon.
However most probably that won't be libraries (.so), but rather completely
new NE or PE "fake DLLs" with a complete header and version resources.

Andreas Mohr