Fwd: Re: [putty]Winelib support + patch

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > Yes, it would be possible to resolve imports directly through the ELF
> > tables and avoid our own separate import mechanism; basically this
> > would be a PE-aware ld.so. It's quite a bit of work though, and
> > portability is an issue. In any case it's for after 1.0 IMO.
> 
> Portability to NetBSD shouldn't be an issue, as
> they seem to have already implemented it :-)  See
> http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/

As far as I can tell, this is only a PE loader, so you need to
cross-compile everything as PE dlls. What we would want for Wine is an
ELF loader that can also load PE and seamlessly link binaries of both
types together.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com