[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 6/25/21 7:38 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> On 6/23/21 8:38 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> And honestly, building our dependencies as PE and linking them
>> statically would make things so much easier for everybody, that there
>> would need to be strong practical reasons to go out of our way to start
>> relying on distro packages for this. A general dislike of the approach
>> is not good enough IMHO.
> 
> 
> I agree that it's a good way to move forward.
> 
> To implement it, we will need to build dependencies with winegcc (rather
> than plain mingw). I did experiment with it last year, you may see it here:
> 
> https://github.com/cjacek/wine-addons
> 
> While the build system itself is just a rough draft and needs
> rethinking, it shows how to build static libs with winegcc (it links
> them into standalone PE files, but they should be ready to statically
> link to Wine modules as well).
> 
> We will probably also need such static libs to be more portable by
> getting rid of libgcc dependency, but that's a latter step.

I remember a discussion a while ago, but why exactly do we need winegcc 
rather than plain mingw?

I remember one argument being that we might not know the CRT version 
linked to, but does this really matter in practice for any of our 
libraries? E.g. the ones I'm aware of ship their own malloc/free 
wrappers for memory they return.