On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working with a spectrometer at an research institute but they only > have windows 16-bit dll to control the sprectrometer. The dll is documented. It would be better if the spectrometer was. > > My question is: Can I write a linux c++ program that uses this dll with > wine? > If you have the source to the dll, you can rewrite it as a 32 bit Wine dll. That would be easier. 16 bit "native" dll's are not well supported: linux c compilers don't do 16 bit code. Not easily, anyway. Maybe you can kluge something using LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress, and CallProcEx, as you would have to do from a windows 32 bit program. I guess. I don't do windows, but I did parts of Wine's CallProcEx some years ago. One other caution: If that 16 bit dll expects to get at the hardware directly, it is going to be frustrated. Wine works hardware through the OS (linux in your case). > On the wine webpage it says "Optional use of external vendor DLLs" but > how do I do it? On a first glance I have also not found any hints on > that in the documentation. > Did you exen look in <wine>/documentation? There is a whole bunch of doco on winelib. Also, see "man winemaker". > Thank you very much for any help, > best regards, > Axel Siebenwirth Lawson ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
