Fwd: Re: [putty]Winelib support + patch
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
Tue Dec 3 11:18:34 CST 2002
Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > Yes, it would be possible to resolve imports directly through the ELF
> > tables and avoid our own separate import mechanism; basically this
> > would be a PE-aware ld.so. It's quite a bit of work though, and
> > portability is an issue. In any case it's for after 1.0 IMO.
>
> Portability to NetBSD shouldn't be an issue, as
> they seem to have already implemented it :-) See
> http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/
As far as I can tell, this is only a PE loader, so you need to
cross-compile everything as PE dlls. What we would want for Wine is an
ELF loader that can also load PE and seamlessly link binaries of both
types together.
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
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