[Wine] Re: Winelibs question.....

[vitamin]

AndyA wrote:
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> vitamin wrote:
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> > 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]
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> > Because Wine is not a simple library that just can be linked to.
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> 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.
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> 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.