On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:09:37 +0100, you wrote: > Rickard Svensson wrote: > > My short question is: > > Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work on a Linux system. > > Answer: almost certainly yes, with a catch: > > 1) Wines current builtin DCOM is not up to scratch for what you want, > and it will take a long time to get there. Really, given how > unglamourous network DCOM hacking is and how few people have worked on > it, it's unlikely to happen until funding is available. > > 2) So ... you'd have to use "native" DCOM. This is a redistributable > that can be downloaded from microsoft.com and installed into Wine. You'd > have to read the EULA very carefully but I suspect you need a Windows > license in order to use it.
Mike, I was hesitating to give this answer. Typically OPC will be used distributed, over an ethernet link. Did anyone test wine & native DCOM in such a way? Can you actually communicate between an application running under Wine with an application that runs under real Windows? Rein. -- Rein Klazes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
