[Bug 467260] Review Request: mingw32-filesystem - MinGW base filesystem and environment

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--- Comment #4 from Daniel Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>  2008-10-17 16:11:31 EDT ---
Windows DLLs are a complex beast. A DLL actually contains two parts, one used
at runtime and one used at link time. Most of the mingw32 packages we're adding
will contain both parts (one part lives in 'bin', the other in 'lib), but the
core Windows system DLLs are a special case. They can be provided in many
different ways, by Windows itself, by Wine, or (partially) by Mingw toolchain.
If you want to run the packages, then Wine would provide the actual DLLs, but
if you're compiling & linking, the combination of the mingw runtime, w32apis &
gcc packages contain the magic parts neccessary for Windows system packages. It
might be better if these fake provides were part of 'mingw-runtime' or
'mingw-w32apis', but in the end it doesn't make a whole lot of difference -
there's never any package with a true kenrel32.dll involved in mingw32, so some
package needs the fake provides regardless

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