PE Conversion

[Erich E. Hoover]

I don't think that there's currently anything in-depth, but a quick
summary is that there's a couple issues that the PE libraries solve:
1) 32-bit system libraries are being deprecated by the distros (and
Apple has already discontinued 32-bit support), so converting built-in
libraries to PE means that Wine will interface solely with the 64-bit
system libraries.
2) Some applications check that the in-memory library and the on-disk
library are identical, so the old "fake DLL" system for the on-disk
version makes them angry.

It's possible there's other reasons as well, but those are the ones
that I remember being talked about.

Best,
Erich

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:38 AM Biswapriyo Nath <nathbappai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any in-depth explanation about why the builtin dlls are being
> coverted to PE?
>