WINEDLLPATH and /usr/lib/wine

[Alexandre Julliard]

Michael Ost <most at museresearch.com> writes:

> I think it makes more sense to require, as Hin-Tak Leung's patch does,
> that a user put /usr/lib/wine in WINEDLLPATH if they use
> WINEDLLPATH. This is how LD_LIBRARY_PATH works for ld and PATH works
> in bash --- so it's expected behavior.
>
> Also, from my reading of the code, you jump through some special hoops
> to deal with running from the build directory which could be more
> easily solved by putting WINEDLLPATH first.
>
> Anyway, I'm guessing that I'm whistling in the wind here since so much
> is built on how WINEDLLPATH currently works...?

Not necessarily, the behavior could probably be tweaked, feel free to
suggest changes. You can't require users to set WINEDLLPATH for normal
usage though, including running from the build tree or from a relocated
install.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org