Re: Using C++ oriented win32 dll in Linux app?

2000-09-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Piotr Dembinski wrote: [snip] > Yeah, the mixture of C++ mangling and even greater mangling skill of > MS programmers gives us a greatly mangled way of doing simple things > in mangled fashion :) > > I am almost sure that my DLLs are compiled with MSVC++ 5.0 or 6.0. > Are the

Re: HOWTO-winelib update

2000-07-24 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:15:27PM +0200, Wilbur N. Dale wrote: > > OK, how do we sort out this 16 car pileup? > AFAIK (I checked it a bit) all important items have been changed by you > already. > > Maybe you could check it. My

Re: HOWTO-winelib update

2000-07-24 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:20:52PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Hi, > > > > adapted to the recent winebuild rename. > Umm. > > "Too late, my love" > > But at least I hit Wilbur's subject character by character ;-) > > Andreas Mohr OK, how do we sor

Re: Link windows NT .lib

2000-07-11 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > I was wondering if I could drop NT platform to use Linux with Wine. The > > only > > point left without an answer is how to link the MS lib with GCC under > > Linux. [snip] [snip] > Let's see if

Re: HOWTO-winelib update

2000-07-11 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John R . Sheets wrote: [snip] > > My personal take is that none of the above files should be included. > After all, the WineLib examples are targeted for developers, who should > be able to install autoconf and libtool (and automake?). They are > usually installed as part of

RE: wine-patches problem

2000-07-07 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Francois Gouget wrote: [snip] Lots of stuff about files sizes. > Even if the binaries are provided on a web/ftp site someone will > have to download them and 2MB seems like a lot. For one Dll and an > executable I would expect something like 30-50KB at most. How come > th

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-06 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, admiral coeyman wrote: [snip] > My hand is up. My compilers are all legitimate. I got three coppies of > Microsoft Visual C++ from Ollies, a local surplus retailer. > I concurr, though. The source code makes a much better example than the > binary. >

RE: wine-patches problem

2000-07-06 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Christopher Morgan wrote: > How big would the binaries for the programs be? I heard some mention of > 2MB binaries, which is an expected size for a windows application, > nothing out of the ordinary these days, but would that be 10-15 2MB > files? Adding 10MB to the cvs tree

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Simon Harrison wrote: > Forgive me for intruding (I'm not a wine developer) but I thought winelib was > mainly for porting from Win32 -> Unix. > Why would someone porting from Win32 *not* have access to Visual Studio? > > -Simon. WineLib allows you to use the win32 API under

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
OK, since binary files invoke such negative reactions, I will split the patch. Where do I send the binaries so they can be placed on winehq? -- Wilbur Dale Lumin Software BV Zandheuvel 52 B 4901 HW Oosterhout (NB) The Netherlands phone: +31-(0)162-47.88.42 fax: +31-(0)162-43.31.52

Re: wine-patches problem

2000-07-05 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Juergen Schmied wrote: > > The patch contains example programs including a windows dll and a windows exe. > > The net result is the tar file is about 2 meg. Is there a limit set someplace > > on the size of an email sent to wine-patches? > Hmm, the cvs tree is text-only. Why

wine-patches problem

2000-07-04 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, Last week I submitted a patch to the wine-patches list and it did not show up on the list. 24 hours later I tried again and still no show. I have been receiving other peoples patches. Today I sent a small test patch and it did show up on the list. Everything seems to work OK except for m

Re: Symbolic links and CVS question

2000-06-28 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Eric Pouech wrote: > "Wilbur N. Dale" wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I finished the example code for DLLs this week end and I am ready to submit a > > patch. However, before I submit the patch, I want to make sure I do not scre

Symbolic links and CVS question

2000-06-26 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, I finished the example code for DLLs this week end and I am ready to submit a patch. However, before I submit the patch, I want to make sure I do not screw up CVS by using symbolic links in the source tree. I do not use CVS since my intention is to only change HOWTO-winelib, but I have rea

HOWTO-winelib update

2000-06-19 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, I worked on some dll examples this week, but will not be submitting them until next week. I ran into a gcc bug that disappears every time you try to troubleshoot it. After some hair pulling, I found a work around. I managed to complete the examples (they run on my machine), but I have not

All these DLL questions

2000-06-16 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
This weekend I will be updating the HOWTO-winelib documentation. This week is DLL week and it seems we need this documentation yesterday. Lumin Software's local Windows guru has written a small sample program with a DLL. I plan to add this to the wine project on Monday. I will show the original W

Bug report

2000-06-14 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
I was goofing off when I should be working and made the following observation. As I was reading the WWN, I played with an example using mshearts (on Win95 machine). mshearts has a score box that automatically comes up at the end of each hand. The program has correct behavior except for the the sc

Re: Loading a DLL from a .so with libwine

2000-06-13 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bob Copeland wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the list and somewhat new to wine, so I apologize in advance > if this is too easy, offtopic, or whatever. Despite much searching, > I have not been able to find any information relevant to my problem. > > I'm trying to build a s

tool/build questions

2000-06-13 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, During my writing of the HOWTO-winelib, two questions came up. 1. tools/build-spec.txt appears out of date. No "mode" is in the documentation. Are there other undocumented features? As best as I could read the source, the answer is no. 2. tools/build for WineLib users -- is there ever a

HOWTO-winelib: Thanks

2000-06-07 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Thanks to all the people who sent corrections and comments on my HOWTO. I will be making corrections and additions this weekend and submitting the new version on Monday. -- Wilbur Dale Lumin Software BV Zandheuvel 52 B 4901 HW Oosterhout (NB) The Netherlands phone: +31-(0)162-47.88.42 fax:

Re: [Q] compiling mfc application with winelib

2000-05-31 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:39:24AM -0700, Damyan Ognyanoff wrote: > > [...] > > Could you please begin to write some sort of Winelib HOWTO to be added > to the Wine documentation/ dir ? > Or somebody else maybe... > > We definitely need this now that W

Re: [Q] compiling mfc application with winelib

2000-05-30 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Vivek Dasgupta wrote: > Hi, > We managed to compile mfc using winelib after changes in wine header > files. Also managed to compile a mfc based application with winelib. But > on running the application gives segmentation fault. > We have made spec file for applica

RFC: Documentation for Compiling MFC

2000-05-24 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
will RTFM until I can quote it in my sleep. If you have info that needs to be added, send me email at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and I will add it. ## From: Ian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: WineLib and MFC "W

MFC questions

2000-05-19 Thread Wilbur N. Dale
Hello, Over the past few months I have been working with wine and winelib in my spare time. Eventually I hope to port a Win32 app to linux using winelib. The next major hurdle in the port is MFC. I see two paths and I am seeking advice and help. 1. Compile MFC. Several years ago we (Lumin Softw