Re: [wx-dev] MSW: single binary for unicows.dll and Unicode
Vaclav Slavik
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Hi,
Robert Roebling wrote:
> 1) Can I produce a single Win32 binary when using
> wxMSW for Win2000 and WinME+unicows.dll or do
> I have to ship two binaries?
You don't have to build two binaries -- after, all, that's what the
darn thing is all about. You only ship one, _linked with
libunicows.a_. libunicows.a ensures that unicows.dll is loaded on
Win9x systems and that native implementations are used on NT/2000/XP.
Also beware that you are NOT allowed to install unicows.dll on
NT/2000/XP (yet another stupid license agreement...)! You must make
sure that the file is only installed on Win9x systems.
> 2) Can I use MingW for unicows.dll compilation
> and if so, which version (1.1 or 2.0)?
It doesn't matter which version because you don't have unicows.dll
sources ;) You have to
a) download unicows.dll binary from Microsoft
b) download MSLU import library (libunicows.a) from
http://libunicows.sf.net
You don't have to recompile libunicows.a yourself, but if you want to,
you can use any version of Mingw and Netwide Assembler (NASM).
Instructions for a) are at http://libunicows.sf.net
HTH,
Vaclav
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