Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate
approach was looked at for reserving special addresses:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255
If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get
rid of the preloader?
Not really,
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 10:24:25 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate
approach was looked at for reserving special addresses:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255
If that kernel issue were
Stefan Dösinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 10:24:25 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Say, it looks like at some point in the past, an alternate
approach was looked at for reserving special addresses:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2255
If that kernel issue were resolved, would that let us get
rid of the preloader?
Why would you want to get rid of it? We haven't had any trouble with it for
a
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because getting rid of it might make it much easier
to turn winelib into a normal library, thus enabling
plain old linux apps to at least statically link it in
and thereby become able to use windows dlls
without having to use the preloader.
We could have
Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because getting rid of it might make it much easier
to turn winelib into a normal library, thus enabling
plain old linux apps to at least statically link it in
and thereby become able to use windows dlls
without having to use the preloader.
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The scenario I'm imagining is:
Lots of people want to use a particular windows dll in their Linux apps.
Joe Developer writes a nice wrapper library using winelib to hide
the fact that win32 is involved at all.
Fred Developer uses Joe's library in his
Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure you can do the ELF magic with a static library, but even if
you could there's a lot more to the initial setup than the preloader;
that's why winelib apps are shared libraries, so that we can do all the
work that needs to be done
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure you can do the ELF magic with a static library, but even if
you could there's a lot more to the initial setup than the preloader;
that's why winelib apps are shared libraries, so that we can do all
