On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 06:13:32PM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:45 PM Zebediah Figura <zfigura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/7/21 2:12 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 05:59:41PM -0500, Zebediah Figura wrote: > > >> Thanks everyone for their input. > > >> > > >> There seems to be a consensus that Fedora would prefer that we use > > >> their MinGW dynamic libraries. However, this leaves a couple of > > >> questions: > > >> > > >> * As I described in [1], we *may* be able to hack things in the Wine > > >> loader such that we can use unmodified dynamic libraries. However, > > >> it's not fully clear yet that it's feasible. If it turns out to be > > >> infeasible, what preferences does Fedora have? (Renamed dynamic > > >> libraries shipped separately, shipped as part of Wine, static > > >> libraries, etc...) > > > > > > Adding -static subpackages is the easiest option from our point of > > > view. As I mentioned in the previous email this would mean adjusting > > > an existing spec such as: > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mingw-gnutls/blob/rawhide/f/mingw-gnutls.spec > > > so that it builds the static library. It's a simple and obvious > > > change. > > > > > > But can Wine use the static library built this way unmodified? > > > And are there any other implications versus using a DLL? > > > > I believe we should be able to use unmodified static libraries, yes. > > > > There are the usual implications—more space on disk and in memory; in > > Wine's case it doesn't really matter a lot, but we do still have cases > > of multiple DLLs that use the same library. It may be possible to use > > helper DLLs to avoid that in most cases. > > > > And, of course, I hate developing with static libraries :-( > > Could you perhaps just build a new dynamic library (with the adjusted > name) by linking an empty/dummy object with the Fedora-provided static > library? (Not sure if that's possible, but it's what came to my mind > when reading this thread.) I doubt this is going to be possible. Windows PE DLLs have some complicated machinery for declaring exported symbols. Plus (like ELF) I imagine the compiler needs to generate quite different code for static vs dynamic. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
