[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Jacek Caban]

On 6/28/21 5:46 PM, Zebediah Figura (she/her) wrote:
> On 6/28/21 8:05 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/28/21 5:51 AM, Zebediah Figura (she/her) wrote:
>>> On 6/25/21 7:38 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
>>>> On 6/23/21 8:38 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>>>> And honestly, building our dependencies as PE and linking them
>>>>> statically would make things so much easier for everybody, that there
>>>>> would need to be strong practical reasons to go out of our way to 
>>>>> start
>>>>> relying on distro packages for this. A general dislike of the 
>>>>> approach
>>>>> is not good enough IMHO.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree that it's a good way to move forward.
>>>>
>>>> To implement it, we will need to build dependencies with winegcc 
>>>> (rather
>>>> than plain mingw). I did experiment with it last year, you may see it
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/cjacek/wine-addons
>>>>
>>>> While the build system itself is just a rough draft and needs
>>>> rethinking, it shows how to build static libs with winegcc (it links
>>>> them into standalone PE files, but they should be ready to statically
>>>> link to Wine modules as well).
>>>>
>>>> We will probably also need such static libs to be more portable by
>>>> getting rid of libgcc dependency, but that's a latter step.
>>>
>>> I remember a discussion a while ago, but why exactly do we need winegcc
>>> rather than plain mingw?
>>
>> Those are just different CRTs. We use msvcrt/ucrt importlib in Wine with
>> tiny additions of static parts of msvcrt and winecrt0. mingw-w64 has a
>> ton of additions and depends on msvcrt importlib, libmingwex.a and
>> libmingw32.a combination. You can't mix them in general (and there is no
>> reason to).
>
> I'm still missing something; shouldn't a shared library built with 
> mingw stand alone? Why would it matter what import library + CRT 
> version + crt0 library the rest of the source is built with?


It matters a lot less for shared libraries, but we're talking about 
using static libraries.


Jacek