May 20, 2026
8:11 a.m.
Should we consider getting rid of prefer-native from more DLLs, stubbiness notwithstanding?
Yes, we should always err on the side of using builtin, even for stubby dlls, because as you noted many of them are not redistributable anyway. In many cases I think the flag was added just by copying from some other makefile and not because it actually helped anything. Ideally I'd like to get rid of the prefer-native mechanism completely and rely only on version heuristics. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10955#note_140753