Prelink usage

[Damjan Jovanovic]

If you read the 2 "Add support for -Ttext-segment linker flag to set
image base of a dll" threads on wine-patches/wine-devel from March
2013, you'll see prelink's functionality is fully achievable without
the use of prelink, just by using newer versions of ld and its
-Ttext-segment option. Read those threads carefully though, as
Alexandre found issues and wanted it implemented a certain way.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 04:38 PM, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>>
>> as some fellow Wine developers misunderstood (on purpose;)  what I wrote
>> above here it is restated for more clarity:
>>
>> Current Wine*needs*  prelink for some applications.
>> The functionality that Wine needs from prelink can be achieved
>> differently. But somebody needs to code that first before the dependency
>> on prelink can be removed. Patches are welcome </hint>
>
>
> Thanks, Michael. I did take a look at the functionality that winegcc uses
> and it uses prelink's "--reloc-only" option. This option could be replicated
> in winegcc. If I can spare a few cycles I will generate some patches.
>
>