[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Zebediah Figura]

On 9/10/21 3:49 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "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.
> 

That applies to static libraries, too, though. In that case I guess we 
have no choice but to go through and check for them...