[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Alexandre Julliard]

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

> 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?

Something like that, yes. Of course there isn't necessarily a
correlation between major version numbers and ABI changes...

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org