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Re: Attribute questions
- To: khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu
- Subject: Re: Attribute questions
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:43:37 GMT
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>, Bertho Stultiens <eklfbs at aau dot dk>
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.990115131855.18900E-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:
>
>I'm not sure why Wine needs to implement the dllimport/export stuff. These
>are there only to compensate for the bizarre DLL design, and if you're
>building Wine on non-native platforms that support real shared libraries,
>this shouldn't be an issue, right?
Presumably Wine is to allow a Win32 Foo.exe to execute. As such the .exe
file will contain calls to thing it expects to be in a Windoze .dll with
the weird conventions. So Wine needs to have stubs at least which can be
called weird-style and then call the UNIX equivalent.