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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Compiling Wine without prelink
From:       Roger Cruz <roger_r_cruz () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2011-11-28 0:38:05
Message-ID: 0EB5621A-8EE4-4BD2-8235-307C0FCC1025 () yahoo ! com
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Great.  Thanks for the explanation 



On Nov 27, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel@kievinfo.com> wrote:

> On 11/27/2011 03:24 PM, Roger Cruz wrote:
> > Could you expand what exactly would not work?
> Some copy-protection systems, and any other programs that do dlls patching using \
> IPC. They assume that some system dlls (namely ntdll, kernel32, and user32) are \
> always loaded to the same address for every system process. 
> It was initially added to support SafeDisk copy protection. Now it's hard to tell \
> what other programs might depend on this. 
> If you do not have prelink, Wine will not be able to load these DLLs at the same \
> address and some programs will fail in mysterious ways. 
> -Vitaliy


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