Hello, I still own MS Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows95 both on CD. According to the FAQ Windows can't be installed using Wine, but the DLLs could be extracted and used with Wine. Is there much benefit from doing this? I guess the DLLs could be copied to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system right? If it makes sense, what is best to used, Win95 or Win NT4? Is this procedure legally allowed (I do not have Windows installed anywhere on the harddrive, just own the original CDs)? TIA Malte
Jonathan Ernst
2005-Oct-03 16:25 UTC
[Wine] Re: Benefits from using original Windows DLLs?
Le lundi 03 octobre 2005 ? 22:30 +0200, Malte Gell a ?crit :> Hello, > > I still own MS Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows95 both on CD. > According to the FAQ Windows can't be installed using Wine, but the > DLLs could be extracted and used with Wine. > > Is there much benefit from doing this? I guess the DLLs could be copied > to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system right?Don't copy blindly all your dlls in this directory. Using native dll should only be used when builtin dlls don't work for a particular application. In some case native dlls help, in other they will do more bad than good. BTW if you want to use a particular native dll with one or more applications, you have to set it using winecfg after copying the native dlls.> > If it makes sense, what is best to used, Win95 or Win NT4? Is this > procedure legally allowed (I do not have Windows installed anywhere on > the harddrive, just own the original CDs)?IANAL but I think you can use the dlls you paid for without problem. -- Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan@ErnstFamily.ch> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20051003/9f59689d/attachment.pgp