[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wine win32 loader

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 22 January 2006 at 11:35, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:30:44AM +0100, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > I was looking at wine/library.h, I think it may possible
> > to use directly win32 library instead of the custom
> > loader (a bit unmaintained, very difficult to maintain).
> [...]
> > What do you think about?
> 
> I think it will be a pain to make it work. Also the whole loader code is
> 1.4 MB uncompressed, how much is wine? I'd call that heavy bloat, esp.
> for modem users like me.

However, there's no harm in making it optional, like libdvdread, libfaad2
etc. IMHO.

Regards,
R.

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