WINEDLLPATH and /usr/lib/wine

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Jan 27 13:27:42 CST 2010


Michael Ost <most at museresearch.com> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Actually the current way is precisely what LD_LIBRARY_PATH does for
>> relocatable installs. The loader first looks in the rpath $ORIGIN path,
>> then in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, then in system directories. Wine does exactly
>> the same thing.
>
> I did a quickie review of 'rpath'. It isn't standard, though, is it?
> I'm not using it with my APP.exe.so. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is searched first
> on my system.

Yes, it's pretty standard (or has equivalent on other platforms). Wine
itself uses it.

> Anyway, is the next step that I (or Hin-Tak) submit a patch and you
> bless it or not?

The first step would probably be to explain why you need to have an app
with the same name as an existing builtin.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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