On Wed, May 29, 2019, 8:26 PM Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> wrote:

> For those not aware (as I was not aware...),
>
> Wine 4.8 (May 10, 2019) introduced support to compile some (not all!) Wine
> DLL and
> EXE files as Windows PE files instead of ELF files. This has a few pros
> and cons.
>
> Pros:
> - Matches what Wine is supporting anyway. Loading of PE files.
> - Uses Mingw-w64 in a larger project. Could boost both projects.
>
> Cons:
> - Debug data is stripped out and dropped on the floor.
> - Fedora doesn't have any packages with multiple binary formats that I
> know of. Is
> this a problem?
>
> Luckily this support is optional at this time, but I've already seen a
> Bugzilla
> troll point users of distros that are not using this feature back to the
> distro for
> support.
>
> What do we want to do here?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>

It might be wise to add the wine list to this thread to get their insight.

>
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