winebuild and circular DLL dependencies

[Alexandre Julliard]

eric pouech <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr> writes:

> well, I think we need to differentiate two things:
> - circular deps in normal imports
> - circular refs of DLLs for delayed imports

I consider that both are wrong. I think it's important to maintain
proper layers and ensure that dll dependencies always go in one
direction. Of course this is not always possible thanks to Microsoft
design (or lack of it); but in the cases where we need to hack
something I want it to be very explicit that something unusual is
going on.

If we make it so that any dll can easily import any other one, we'll
quickly end up with an inextricable mess of cross-dll dependencies,
simply because adding an import in the spec file for any dll that you
may need is so much easier than having to use GetProcAddress and think
about minimizing inter-dll calls because they are a pain to do.

So there aren't really technical reasons we cannot do it, the issue is
enforcing a structure by not making it too easy to do things the wrong
way.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com