Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure you can do the ELF magic with a static library, but even if >> you could there's a lot more to the initial setup than the preloader; >> that's why winelib apps are shared libraries, so that w

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure you can do the ELF magic with a static library, but even if > you could there's a lot more to the initial setup than the preloader; > that's why winelib apps are shared libraries, so that we can do all the > work that needs to be done

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The scenario I'm imagining is: > Lots of people want to use a particular windows dll in their Linux apps. > Joe Developer writes a nice wrapper library using winelib to hide > the fact that win32 is involved at all. > Fred Developer uses Joe's library

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because getting rid of it might make it much easier > > to turn winelib into a normal library, thus enabling > > plain old linux apps to at least statically link it in > > and thereby become able to use windows dlls > > without having to use the

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because getting rid of it might make it much easier > to turn winelib into a normal library, thus enabling > plain old linux apps to at least statically link it in > and thereby become able to use windows dlls > without having to use the preloader. We cou

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Kegel
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255 > > If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get > > rid of the preloader? > > Why would you want to get rid of it? We haven't had any trouble with it f

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 10:24:25 schrieb Alexandre Julliard: >> "Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate >> > approach was looked at for reserving special addresses: >> > http://bugzilla.

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 10:24:25 schrieb Alexandre Julliard: > "Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate > > approach was looked at for reserving special addresses: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255 > > If that kernel

Re: Wine preloader redux

2008-03-04 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate > approach was looked at for reserving special addresses: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255 > If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get > rid of the preloader? Not

Wine preloader redux

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Kegel
Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate approach was looked at for reserving special addresses: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255 If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get rid of the preloader?