[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Zebediah Figura (she/her)" <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:

> * By linking libraries statically, or by linking them shared and
>   distributing them ourselves, we are taking up more disk space that
>  could be shared. This is obviously a garbage argument because no
> other application is using PE libraries, except that:
>
>   (a) some distributions [5] and unofficial repositories [6] do ship
>   MinGW libraries, which means that there *is* a demand for them
>  outside of Wine, and

Note that one of the drawbacks of shared PE libs is that they are
visible to the app, and potentially conflict with libraries bundled with
the app. This means that we'd want to rename our versions, so even
though Debian ships a zlib.dll, we would need our own separate
winezlib.dll anyway.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org