Wine preloader redux

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue Mar 4 06:17:43 CST 2008


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>  > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255
>  > If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get
>  > rid of the preloader?
>
> Why would you want to get rid of it?  We haven't had any trouble with it for a long time.

Because getting rid of it might make it much easier
to turn winelib into a normal library, thus enabling
plain old linux apps to at least statically link it in
and thereby become able to use windows dlls
without having to use the preloader.



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