I think that is a nice method, but why would I want to use Winelib over a builtin dll which simply makes calls to the Linux kernel?
Cheers, Lonnie > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Geoff Thorpe wrote: > [...] >> > I am interested in having a windows DLL that can access some >> > functions native to Linux. > [...] > > The way to do this would be to be writing a Winelib library. This > library can be used by the rest of the application, be it Winelib > or native Windows, and this library can call both Win32 and Unix > APIs. When in a Winelib library, calling a Unix API is no > different from calling it from any other Unix library. > > >> Won't it be wonderful when some applications will actually work >> *better* under Wine than in native windows? Ie. under native >> windows, "click here" will just open IE or whatever, but under >> wine with a "talk-through" API, it could instead allow the >> browsing to be hosted either through the 'normal' windows API >> (presumably launching IE) *or* be passed out to a native browser >> of choice on the host system (mozilla, konqueror, whatever). > > You mean something like the fourth screenshot on this page :-) > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/supported_applications.php? id=a-msword > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/images/msword2000_url.gif > > > -- > Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://fgouget.free.fr/ > Hiroshima '45 - Czernobyl '86 - Windows '95
