wine users - Mar 2007 - Where does wine look for the native dlls

Hey guys,

  I have wine 0.9.22. In winecfg, under the Libraries tab, I have the
choice of setting whether libraries are taken from a native windows
installation or from those built into wine. The only thing is, I don't
know where it's trying to get native libraries. I have three
installations of Windows on my computer - 98, XP and 3.11 ;-).

I have searched through my wine config files, which on my computer
seems just to be in wine registry files.

I have searched the documentation and the Wine website and the web,
but no sign of finding out, or (more importantly) choosing *where Wine
will look for native dlls*.

Hope I can get an answer on this issue.

Alex.

> I have searched the documentation and the Wine website and the web,
> but no sign of finding out, or (more importantly) choosing *where Wine
> will look for native dlls*.
> Hope I can get an answer on this issue.
You can :^)

In winecfg, there is a tab in which you define your DOS drives (a:, c:,
etc...)

Wine looks on the c: driver, in windows/system and/or windows/system32

So if you want to use an existing windows partition, you should mount it
(for example on /dos), and then in winecfg define the path of your c: drive
as /dos.

See you.

-- 
Fabrice DELENTE

> > Hope I can get an answer on this issue.
>
> You can :^)
Thanks big nose
> Wine looks on the c: driver, in windows/system and/or windows/system32
>
> So if you want to use an existing windows partition, you should mount it
> (for example on /dos), and then in winecfg define the path of your c: drive
> as /dos.
When I installed wine, it made a drive_c directory with windows system
files in it and mapped that to c:, as you no doubt know. I assumed
that the dlls files in drive_c/windows/system32 were the built-in
libraries as they were part of wine (wine put them there).

So the files stored in the drive_c (in my case anyway) are the
"native" libraries. And the "built-in" ones are actually
part of the
code of wine itself, and not stored in my user directory.

I would not have realised this on my own any time soon.

Thankyou for your answer. I understand now.

Alex