FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Craig Davison [mailto:cd AT securityfocus.com]
> Sent: February 3, 2003 4:00 PM
> 
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:53:36PM -0500, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > Libraries built with with cygwin don't require cygwin to be 
> installed at
> > runtime; you just need cygwin's runtime dll.  That would be 
> a good bet for
> > you, because it would bypass WINE completely, is known to 
> work, and we
> > intend to keep it working as long as people find it useful.  
> 
> ? cygwin is still layered overtop of WINE as any other DLL 
> would be. 

Ah, silly of me.  Quite so.  

The more I think about this, the easier it seems.  Just a bit of metacoding,
really, writing a .spec file and running the existing code through
"winebuild" to produce a "non-native DLL" -- something that behaves as a DLL
to the application but uses the OS's system calls.  

http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-devel/architecture.shtml

In my spare time....

--jkl


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