[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Esme Povirk (she/they)" <esme at codeweavers.com> writes:

> 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.

That would assume that all libraries find all their data based solely on
the library path. That seems optimistic...

Note that the issue is not only with imported libraries, it could be
using external config files or registry keys, all of these would have to
be renamed as well.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org