Wine does not seem to even try to load DLLs at their preferred address. Still, I'm not sure this is actually bad and I think Win8 forces randomization of the layout anyway,
Alessandro > He believes that this was done on purpose to break Wine and other non- > Windows environments. It's an interface to BASS/fmod, and these > libraries supposedly have very strict licensing requirements that > require you to pay per platform you want to support. By constructing > the dll this way it will always (with the caveat mentioned above) run > on Windows, but not under Wine (unless the preferred load address is > available and Wine loads it there, but there are no guarantees for > that; I don't even know whether Wine tries to do this). > As to the best solution: not sure. Current Wine behaviour matches that > of Windows, it's the unavailable preferred load address that triggers > the "problem". > > > Jonas
