[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Esme Povirk (she/they)]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 3:49 AM Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> 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.

I think this is usually the case based on the work I've done packaging
open-source (primarily unix) libraries for Windows.

I also think that it should be the goal of upstream libraries or at
least distributions to provide versions that are useful for targeting
Windows, and an important part of that is being able to function in an
application that doesn't know what directory it'll be installed to,
and may not have an install process at all. Especially if
distributions actively want us to use their packages, they should be
willing to accept patches for that. It does of course leave us
dependent on distributions instead of letting us take matters into our
own hands, but that would be a problem anyway.