Re: [PATCH 0/6] Allow using external static libraries for PE dependencies

[Alexandre Julliard]

Zebediah Figura  writes:
> It's not actually clear if the ZLIB_PE_CFLAGS and ZLIB_PE_LIBS introduced in
> 2929aa3c74 were meant for this purpose, given the number of ways in which
> they're broken. Nevertheless, it would be really quite nice to have, so this
> series aims to provide that. After these patches I'm able to compile wine using
> distribution static libraries, with the following configure flags:
> configure ZLIB_PE_CFLAGS="$(x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config --cflags zlib)" ZLIB_PE_LIBS="-Wl,-Bstatic $(x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config --static --libs zlib) -Wl,-Bdynamic" PNG_PE_CFLAGS="$(x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config --cflags libpng16)" PNG_PE_LIBS="-Wl,-Bstatic $(x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config --static --libs libpng16) -lmingwex -lmingw32 -Wl,-Bdynamic"
>
> Patches 5-6 are necessary to allow static linking of libpng16.

I don't think that's going to work in general. The linked C runtime
needs to match the version that was used when compiling.