On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:45:05AM -0700, Zavada, Ed wrote: > I've seen this question asked before, but there was never a response to the >newsgroup. > > We'd like to use WineLib to provide implementations of the Windows > calls in our application's Linux build while we work on a full blown > port. So far, all the documentation requires that we use winebuild and > generate a .so that is loaded by the wine server. Is this truely the > only way to do this?
The .so is loaded by the 'wine' binary, not the server. But actually yes, most sublibraries require wineserver to be running to be used. > Is there no way to just use the various libraries independent of wine > server? For instance, I'd like to be able to make a call to MessageBox() > from a native linux binary, then later eliminate the need for it (since > this will ultimately be a console app). I do not think so. Ciao, Marcus