make builtin dlls visible for applications?

Hans Leidekker hans at it.vu.nl
Fri Nov 18 10:34:54 CST 2005


On Friday 18 November 2005 02:05, Juan Lang wrote:

> Someone proposed a hack where the loader would know that these DLLs are
> dummies based on a wine-specific flag in the header.

Why a dummy? Why not ship a full PE DLL with a flag saying it's a built-in?
That way file existence checks, PE header checks, LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATA_FILE, 
resource scraping, even some copy protection checks, etc. could all work.

 -Hans



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