Commit 4020a21f authored by Dimitrie O. Paun's avatar Dimitrie O. Paun Committed by Alexandre Julliard

Add author list as with the other guides.

Small cleanups.
parent 80f64817
<chapter id="bindlls">
<title id="bindlls.title">Using Linux libraries as DLLs</title>
<!-- FIXME: note that you can link PE DLLs to Winelib apps -->
<title id="bindlls.title">Building WineLib DLLs</title>
<sect1 id="bindlls-intro">
<title id="binary-dlls-intro.title">Introduction</title>
<para>
For one reason or another you may find yourself with a Linux shared
For one reason or another you may find yourself with a Linux
library that you want to use as if it were a Windows Dll. There are
various reasons for this including the following:
<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
<para>
There is a well-defined interface available and there are several
Linux solutions that are available for it.
(The ODBC interface in Wine)
Linux solutions that are available for it
(e.g. the ODBC interface in Wine).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
You wish to do something that you can do in Linux but Wine does
not yet support it.
You have a binary only Windows application that can be extended
through plugins, such as a text editor or IDE.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
......@@ -184,8 +185,7 @@ signed short WINAPI MyProxyWinFunc (unsigned short a, void *b, void *c,
is quite long it is extremely simple in structure.
</para>
<para>
The MAIN_OdbcInit function is the function that was named in the
<link linkend="bindlls-spec">spec file</link> as the init function.
<function>DllMain</function> the function is used to initialize the DLL.
On the process attach event the function dynamically links to the
desired Linux ODBC library (since there are several available) and
builds a list of function pointers. It unlinks on the process
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......@@ -47,19 +47,12 @@
<sect1 id="mfc-legal-issues">
<title id="mfc-legal-issues.title">Legal issues</title>
<para>
(Extracted from the HOWTO-Winelib written by Wilbur Dale
&lt;wilbur.dale@lumin.nl&gt;)
</para>
<para>
The purpose of this section is to make you aware of potential legal
problems. Be sure to read your licenses and to consult your lawyers.
In any case you should not consider the remainder of this section to
be authoritative since it has not been written by a lawyer.
</para>
<para>
Well, let's try to have a look at the situation anyway.
</para>
<para>
During the compilation of your program, you will be combining code
from several sources: your code, Winelib code, Microsoft MFC code,
and possibly code from other vendor sources. As a result, you must
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......@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@
<para>
The <literal>wchar_t</literal> type has different standard
sizes in Unix (4 bytes) and Windows (2 bytes). Recent versions
of gcc (2.9.7 or later) support the
sizes in Unix (4 bytes) and Windows (2 bytes). You need a
recent gcc version (2.9.7 or later) that supports the
<parameter>-fshort-wchar</parameter> option to set the
size of <literal>wchar_t</literal> to the one expected
by Windows applications. Pass this option to every file
that is built.
by Windows applications.
</para>
<para>
......@@ -21,26 +20,11 @@
the msvcrt runtime library instead of glibc. The functions in
glibc will not work correctly with 16 bit strings.
</para>
<para>
To prevent warnings when declaring a single unicode character
in C, use <function>(WCHAR)L'x'</function>, rather than
<function>__TEXT('x')</function>. This works on Windows also.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="C-library">
<title id="C-library.title">C library</title>
<!-- *** Is all of this covered now? Make sure before deleting ***
<para>
Winelib currently only supports on C library: that of your
compiler. three solutions: native, mixed or msvcrt except we
only have native right now, using the native C library ->
different behavior: fopen, O_TEXT, unicode support,
reimplement msvcrt
</para>
-->
<para>
There are 2 choices available to you regarding which C library
to use: the native glibc C library or the msvcrt C library.
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......@@ -12,6 +12,22 @@
<book id="index">
<bookinfo>
<title>Winelib User's Guide</title>
<!-- Until we learn how to format this thing nicely,
we can't really incude it -->
<!--authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Wilbur</firstname>
<surname>Dale</surname>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Francois</firstname>
<surname>Gouget</surname>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<surname>Sheets</surname>
</author>
<authorgroup-->
</bookinfo>
&intro;
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