On 9/8/21 3:13 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > As far as I understand it, the PE loader used for Wine is part of Wine, > so it has total control over the libraries that it loads and how it loads > them. This means that if Wine developers (the experts on this codebase) > have decided a libcapsule-like approach isn't feasible or isn't desirable, > they are probably right.
Could the PE loader add support for some sort of namespaces and then be told to load Wine dependencies within a Wine namespace? Does the Microsoft Windows loader support anything like this? Recompiling every PE library with special flags or renaming every PE library with a Wine prefix seems a bit tedious if just the PE loader and anything that requests Wine deps can use a namespace/capsule/etc. On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 10:42 -0500, Zebediah Figura wrote: > The basic reason is that Wine is essentially trying to split itself into > "PE" and "Unix" parts. The idea is that all of the "user" code is built > in PE format, and only calls into unix code by making a sort of fake > syscall. The "kernel" code is built in ELF format. > > There are a few basic reasons for doing this: Definitely seems like the right thing to do for Wine. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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