Wrapping a Windows DLL

[Robert Fendt]

Hi,

maybe this is a common question, in which case I would be very glad for a
few pointers to corresponding information. Here is what I am hoping to
achieve:

A device (a DSLR, but that should not really matter) can be controlled by
the computer via USB. The manufacturer provides an SDK and a couple of
DLLs, but no USB documentation and certainly no source. It's using the SDK
or reverse-engineering the protocol. Is it possible to use Wine to emulate
the Windows-specific USB bits and pieces (so the DLL is happy) and thus
write a wrapper lib (.so) for Unix app development?

Regards,
Robert

[austin987]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Robert Fendt<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

maybe this is a common question, in which case I would be very glad for a
few pointers to corresponding information. Here is what I am hoping to
achieve:

A device (a DSLR, but that should not really matter) can be controlled by
the computer via USB. The manufacturer provides an SDK and a couple of
DLLs, but no USB documentation and certainly no source. It's using the SDK
or reverse-engineering the protocol. Is it possible to use Wine to emulate
the Windows-specific USB bits and pieces (so the DLL is happy) and thus
write a wrapper lib (.so) for Unix app development?

http://wiki.winehq.org/USB

--
-Austin

[vitamin]

A device (a DSLR, but that should not really matter) can be controlled by the computer via USB.

Vanilla Wine does not support any USB drivers and can not talk directly to USB devices (with exception of USB->Serial interfaces).

See the link Austin posted for experiential patches for USB support.

[vitamin]

Forgot to add, you can create a "wrapper" for a DLL. The only problem, it will have to be winelib app running under Wine.

Wine is more then just a few libraries. It's a whole environment. You can't pull only one piece out of it and expect it to work. Especially of that one piece [kernel drivers] touches so many things.