native linux library call from native win32 app

[chrisjonmcdonald]

Hi there,

My apologies if this is a silly question in advance.

I use wine on fedora to run a 3rd party application which runs very successfully under wine. That application permits me to modify its functionality by providing a custom written DLL. My DLL code is straightforward stuff with no windows API calls, no MFC or anything that is platform specific, and its not GUI code either.

Until now I have written the DLL on windows and then copied the DLL onto the linux environment for execution by the 3rd party application. That also works very successfully with wine.

Is it possible for me to write the DLL as a native unix shared library and then tell wine that this is the DLL so that the 3rd party application can call its functions without modification (as I dont have source for the 3rd party app)?

This would hugely simplify my development environment an release me from any dependence on Microsoft Windows.

Any help on where to look or how to do this would be appreciated

thanks in advance


chris

[chrisjonmcdonald]

sorry - forgot to mention I am using wine-1.3.24 on fedora 14 if that is important

chris