wine users - Feb 2010 - windows dlls

I'm a junior in college majoring in computer science and thinking about
doing my Independent Study on something with WINE.  I'm a huge linux
supporter and I want to be able to use everything I can in windows in linux, but
currently, I can't, clearly.

My idea is to make a program that will copy all of the native DLLs from my
windows partition into my WINE directory and see if that makes programs work
better.

Being that I know relatively little about how WINE actually works I don't
know if this will work or not and would like some feedback on the feasibility of
it.  Will it benefit WINE if I am successful?  Have attempts been made in the
past that have failed?  If I do it successfully will I be able to run things
like windows media player (bad example, just trying to think of a native windows
program) in WINE?  Etc.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, I hope to be of help to the WINE and
linux community

> My idea is to make a program that will copy all of the native DLLs from my
windows partition into my WINE directory and see if that makes programs work
better.
>
In general this will break wine. You can not do that.

John

paintbalforjesus wrote:
> I'm a junior in college majoring in computer science and thinking about
doing my Independent Study on something with WINE.  I'm a huge linux
supporter and I want to be able to use everything I can in windows in linux, but
currently, I can't, clearly.
> 
> My idea is to make a program that will copy all of the native DLLs from my
windows partition into my WINE directory and see if that makes programs work
better.
> 
> Being that I know relatively little about how WINE actually works I
don't know if this will work or not and would like some feedback on the
feasibility of it.  Will it benefit WINE if I am successful?  Have attempts been
made in the past that have failed?  If I do it successfully will I be able to
run things like windows media player (bad example, just trying to think of a
native windows program) in WINE?  Etc.
> 
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, I hope to be of help to the WINE
and linux community

As John said, that will break Wine. DLL overrides need to be used judiciously,
on an as-needed basis. Overrides that are needed to make one app work may well
break another one. And there are some dlls that should never be replaced with
native ones.

There are lots of apps that run just fine in Wine without any native dlls. 

I suggest you start by reading the documentation. http://wiki.winehq.org/