[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 6/28/21 6:59 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "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.
> 

Ugh. That was probably pointed out to me ages ago, but I forgot about it :-(