[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Esme Povirk (she/they)]

Actually, the "clever" solution may be to base any changes in loader
behavior on the path of the dll, not how it was loaded. If a library
is dynamically loading dependencies on Windows, it's already going to
ensure it loads them based on its own location.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 8:56 AM Esme Povirk (she/they)
<esme at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:39 PM Zebediah Figura <zfigura at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > Actually, while thinking about it I realized another, more salient snag:
> > if system library A tries to load system library B dynamically, we have
> > no way of knowing whether to give it the system or application library.
> >
> > I don't think there's any way around this. Even rewriting the import
> > table using objcopy or something (which was actually proposed in
> > conversation with distributions) wouldn't fix this. We have to use a
> > different name, or abandon dynamic libraries altogether.
> >
> > Maybe there's clever solution I'm missing?
>
> If a library needs to do this, then we will have to modify it no
> matter what solution we use.