[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 9/1/21 2:05 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Zebediah Figura (she/her)" <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:
> 
>> On 8/31/21 2:30 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>> "Zebediah Figura (she/her)" <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 8/31/21 1:25 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>>>> Remember that we need the libs to have custom names, to avoid conflicts
>>>>> with Windows apps shipping the same libs.
>>>>
>>>> Yep, I've been keeping that in mind. If we want to distribute shared
>>>> libraries I'm inclined to think the best solution there is to copy (or
>>>> symlink, or fake-symlink) them into the prefix with different names.
>>> This won't work for nested dependencies. For instance the PE libpng
>>> is
>>> going to import the PE zlib, so it needs to have been renamed at build
>>> time already.
>>
>> Indeed; that's annoying, but thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> Note that there would also need to be some sort of DLL versioning
> scheme, to handle ABI changes.
> 

As far as I understand, this is already dealt with by appending the 
major version number to the DLL name, e.g. "libfreetype-6.dll", or do 
you mean something different?