too much dynamic loading?

[James McKenzie]

ryan woodsmall wrote:
>> I'm not convinced direct linking will work better on Mac OS X, unless
>> you ship libpng and libjpeg with Wine.
>
> And libgnutls (plus prereqs libgpg-error & libgcrypt). And libgphoto2, 
> libexif, libtiff, libgsm, libjbig... - there's a laundry list of 
> libraries that are required for a full-featured Wine install, and 
> prereqs of prereqs, prereqs of THOSE. You get the point. Static 
> libraries on Mac OS X/Darwin also misbehave in odd ways that you 
> simply don't see with dylibs as well.
>
Does not Wine's configure not include these if they are not found?

Yes, a MacOSX build should either:

1.  Get them.
2.  Ship with them, build for the LCD MacOSX version (right now that it 
is, believe it or not, Tiger [MacOSX 10.4.11].) 

MacOSX does not include many UNIX type programs and utilities because 
they are not used in the base product.  MacPorts and Fink are two 
porting efforts to bring UNIX utilities/programs to MacOSX and most of 
the utilities can be built from source.

However, MacOSX Wine distributors cannot rely on which version of a 
utility I installed and even if I did.

Many MacOSX users have been quietly surprised when their favorite 
Windows program causes a complete system lockup because of a faulty or 
incomplete Wine installation....

James McKenzie