[PATCH v6 1/2] ntdll: Allow loading system DLLs from a path specified at configure time.

[Alexandre Julliard]

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

> On 11/11/21 02:52, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Zebediah Figura <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Many distributions provide MinGW-compiled system DLLs which are currently
>>> bundled with Wine. Unfortunately, while MinGW pkg-config can be used to detect
>>> the linking path, there is no standardized runtime path, and many distributions
>>> in fact use different paths.
>> I think it needs to be a proper path containing multiple
>> directories, at
>> least to allow supporting both 32- and 64-bit dlls. Otherwise there
>> would need to be some sort of mapping from PE architecture to system
>> dir.
>> 
>
> The way it's done currently by this patch is already per-architecture.
>
> I suspect that you want to take into account shared WoW64 support from
> a single tree. My guess is that we want two separate variables, so
> that we don't end up unnecessarily searching the wrong path, but the 
> infrastructure isn't there yet for that. In lieu of that I'll use a
> semicolon-separated list. That's probably desirable anyway (to allow
> for e.g. /usr/local/lib/ + /usr/lib/).

Note that it's not just two variables, for instance we also want to
support x86 on ARM.  The infrastructure for that is already there in the
loader.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org