On 03/20/2011 06:54 PM, Chris Robinson wrote:
As far as I can tell, the patch makes it so the .exe.so file can be run directly, by adding a _start section that automatically execs wine with all the same arguments passed on the command line. As a result, it removes the .so extension so you can, for example, just run the 'winecfg.exe' executable itself, with no 'winecfg' wrapper script needed.
This is what I understood as well.
My problems with the patch are: - This should be platform independent and working everywhere Wine works - It should be optional at very minimum. It's not possible to run shared libraries for a reason. - Calling something .exe doesn't magically make it a PE-executable. You can't call ELF shared library a windows executable. File can stay .exe.so and still be executable as they are now
Vitaliy.