1 Copyright Robert J. Amstadt, 1993. All code is provided without
2 warranty. It is my intent to cover this code with the Gnu Public
5 So here goes release 0.1.0 of the Windows loader. It will do some
6 relocations and then run the program. I have successfully loaded
7 the Windows solitaire game. Try it. It currently stops a call to
10 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.1.0:
11 - Integrated patches from Alexandre.
12 - Minor bug fix in if1632.S
14 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.0.5:
15 - Patches from Alexandre Julliard. Some integration with Tcl.
16 - Generic interface for callback procedures. This will allow
18 - MakeProcInstance() has been implemented but untested.
20 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.0.4:
21 - Eric Youngdale modified wine.c and selector.c to allow loading
23 - Added global memory allocation routines (GlobalAlloc, GlobalFree,
25 - Bitmap resource loading into global memory.
27 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.0.3:
28 - Fixed bug with sector sizes.
29 - Registers at program startup are now set correctly.
30 - Segment fixups for relocatable-segment internal entry points.
31 - Fixed bug in DOS PSP structure.
32 - Some resource loading is done.
33 - Added "return" ordinal type to build program.
34 - Added comment capability to build program.
36 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.0.2:
38 - Again thanks to Eric Youngdale for some very useful comments.
39 - The Windows startup code created by Micrsoft C 7.0 now runs
41 - Added a new patch to the kernel to increase the usable size of
42 the ldt to the full 32 entries currently allowed.
43 - Imported name relocations are now supported.
44 - Source code for my infamous test program is now included.
45 - A handful of basic Windows functions are now emulated. See
46 "kernel.spec" for examples of how to use the build program.
48 WHAT'S NEW with version 0.0.1:
50 - Eric Youngdale contributed countless improvements in memory
51 efficiency, bug fixes, and relocation.
52 - The build program has been completed. It now lets you specify
53 how the main DLL entry point should interface to your emulation
54 library routines. A brief description of how to build these
55 specifications is included in the file "build-spec.txt".
56 - The code to dispatch builtin DLL calls is complete, but untested.
60 - Segment fixup code completion.
61 - Trap and handle DOS and DPMI calls.
62 - global memory allocation completion
63 - GlobalAlloc should support ZEROINIT.
64 - GlobalAlloc of code segments.
65 - complete and improve local heap allocation.
66 - Handle self-loading applications.
71 Uncompress and untar this archive into the directory of your
72 choice. The file "ldt.tar" contains a necessary kernel patch against
73 Linux 0.99.10. "ldt.tar" is unchanged from the version released
74 with release 0.0.2. In the directory /usr/src/linux (or whereever
75 you keep your kernel sources), untar this file it contains three files:
78 - This is source for a new system call.
81 - This contains structures defining the system call
85 - This is a patch that must be applied to the kernel.
86 It updates two header files, and the kernel Makefile.
90 The documentation for the build program is in the file build-spec.txt
96 If you successfully add anything, please send me a copy.