WINE & prelink
Mike McCormack
mike at codeweavers.com
Mon Mar 6 03:58:21 CST 2006
Vitaly Lipatov wrote:
> Can anyone explain here or at http://wiki.winehq.com/ about prelink usage in
> WINE. Is it necessary for build process?
> I see it is recommended at http://wiki.winehq.com/Recommended_Packages
It's used in an attempt to fix the load address of a few builtin dlls
(ntdll, kernel32, user) so that Windows programs that rely on the
address being the same across different programs work correctly.
Mike
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