[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Esme Povirk (she/they)]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:53 AM Zebediah Figura (she/her)
<zfigura at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Is that guaranteed? Is there any reason that an application can't put
> DLLs in system32?

No, but open-source libraries that target windows have to cope with
being installed in an arbitrary location. That means that if any
applications install things in system32 on Windows, they need to cope
with that too. So if one *were* broken in that way, it'd be broken on
Windows too.