How to call Wine dll from python on Linux?

Question

I'm writing a python script in Linux, and need to call some Windows functions available in Wine. Specifically, AllocateAndInitializeSid and LookupAccountSidW, to determine who is logged in to a remote Windows computer. These functions are part of advapi32.dll in Wine (edit: using the answers, I was able to call the function, but LookupAccountSidW only works on the local computer).

How can I access these functions, or a Wine dll in general? I've tried

>>> cdll.LoadLibrary("~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/advapi32.dll")

but it results in an error:

OSError: ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/advapi32.dll: invalid ELF header

Is there another ctypes function that would work, or some wine interface I could use?

Answer 1

Doesn't Wine provide *.so versions of the dlls? I seem to have /usr/lib32/wine/advapi32.dll.so, for example.

If you're on a 64-bit machine, keep in mind that you'll need a 32-bit version of Python to load 32-bit libraries.

Answer 2

Understand that .DLL is the format used by Windows.

On linux, such libraries end with .SO

You can't use a library compiled for one platform on the other one. It's not compatible.