On Thursday 03 January 2008, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > 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. Ah yes of course, it all makes sense now. I was suffering from a large dose of faulty-point-of-viewism :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
