Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 6/28/21 6:59 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Zebediah Figura (she/her)"  writes:
> > - By linking libraries statically, or by linking them shared and
> >  distributing them ourselves, we are taking up more disk space that
> > could be shared. This is obviously a garbage argument because no
> >
> > other application is using PE libraries, except that:
> >
> > (a) some distributions [5] and unofficial repositories [6] do ship
> >    MinGW libraries, which means that there *is* a demand for them
> >   outside of Wine, and
>
> Note that one of the drawbacks of shared PE libs is that they are
> visible to the app, and potentially conflict with libraries bundled with
> the app. This means that we'd want to rename our versions, so even
> though Debian ships a zlib.dll, we would need our own separate
> winezlib.dll anyway.

Ugh. That was probably pointed out to me ages ago, but I forgot about it :-(