On Tuesday 16 July 2002 23:19, Garrett Serack wrote: > puoti@inwind.it wrote: > >You basicly can't do that, most winxp software will not run under wine, > >wine can't use winxp dlls, vmware or win4lin are the only real solution > >unless you try and run mandrake 8.2 and wine, this will allow you to > >have a very easy and simple os, and a lot of win programs. > > Except, that wine *can* use native dlls. > > There's nothing stopping it, and essentially many moons ago, that was > the only way to sccuessfully run anything under Wine was to use native > DLLs. > > I'm not interested in a "simple to use OS"... I'm interested in using > Linux (and a somewhat customized version at that) and using Wine, but > with actual MS Dlls for any functionality I can. Wine can use actual MS dlls, but till the dll separation is finished it will not work well enough. There were some discussion about this some time ago on wine-devel. Regards Zsolt Rizsanyi _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users