[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 9/9/21 9:05 AM, Esme Povirk (she/they) wrote:
> 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.

Is that guaranteed? Is there any reason that an application can't put 
DLLs in system32?

Granted, I don't actually know if there even are any libraries that do 
this. I guess that if there are, it'd break building everything as 
static as well, so maybe it doesn't matter.