Request for discussion: Using PE libraries for Wine dependencies

[Esme Povirk (they/them)]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:08 AM Gabriel Ivăncescu
<gabrielopcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, if this approach is chosen, I think they should first go (or be
> read in) somewhere in wine's directory, like other libs (or how Proton
> bundles its libs in <wine_dir>/lib{,64} for example) and the system-wide
> paths after that if those aren't found (or maybe not at all, because
> most distros don't even ship with mingw libraries... and I hate being
> reliant on this fact).

If this approach is chosen, I intend to maintain a set of mingw
libraries that can be used as an alternative to getting them from the
distribution.