Re: Can I use a static build to install on an obsolete target?

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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Fair enough. It's an interesting answer, so what's the reason that wine 
> can't be built statically? A design decision or a technical (code) 
> reason somewhere?

Technical reasons. Windows can't be built statically either, dynamic
loading is very much integral to the whole design. Wine is not a
stand-alone application, it's really a set of libraries, the true
application is the Windows binary, so that's what would have to be
statically linked.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard@xxxxxxxxxx

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