AndyA wrote: > > vitamin wrote: > > > > AndyA wrote: > > > I've been digging today, and what I'm trying to work out at the moment is why "ld" won't easly be coaxed into producing a working absolute executable. > > > [snipped all irrelevant] > > > > Because Wine is not a simple library that just can be linked to. > > > Mmm, I'm sure that might sound like Wine is great, and I'm stupid. That's not where I'm coming from at all. I have no gripe against Wine, or the good people that develop and support it. > > What I'm talking about is GNU ld! Read what I said again. You can not _link_ to Wine. Wine is not a library. It can not be loaded after that fact of starting main executable. Wine have to be running first. Regardless how you do it. If you want to "run" .exe files - use binfmt for that.
