Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:55:53 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64/104311: ports/wine should be installable on amd64 Message-ID: <E1GYKhl-0002M0-Ke@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061013043034.GA71990@duncan.reilly.home>
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> That won't work with wine, I'm fairly certain. In order to look > sufficiently similar to a Windows environment, you have to have > something that looks like DLLs. Wine, just like Windows, has a > gazillion dynamically loadable libraries, for that reason. > Run-time linking is very much part of the windows experience... Ah, O.K. - do theres a Unix linkable shared library to match each Windows DLL ? Didn't realise that, I assumed it just used the actual Windows DLL's directly somehow. The other part of the question about making ports link staticly still stands though - anyone know of an easy way to do this ? cheers, -pete.
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