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Subject: Re: amd64/104311: ports/wine should be installable on amd64
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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.