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Samueru

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Is there a reason that the wine package ships static libraries?

Normally archlinux gets rid of static libraries, but I noticed that the wine package has +100 MiB of static libs in it.

I manually removed them and everything seems to work fine, so I'm not sure why they were kept around.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Is there a reason that the wine package ships static libraries?

You are probably referring to the *.a files in /usr/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/ folder ?

The files in /usr/lib/wine/x86_64-windows all appear to PE versions, maybe the static ones are needed for applications that don't support PE ?

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Re: Is there a reason that the wine package ships static libraries?

Staticlibs are only removed if they have a dynamic (.so) counterpart.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pac … .sh.in#L38

The maintainer would need to manually clean these files up, assuming they genuinely aren't needed. Alternatively you can use pacman's noextract option to prevent these files being installed.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … _to_system

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Samueru

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Re: Is there a reason that the wine package ships static libraries?

I don't think those static libs are needed at all, the alpine linux package of wine doesn't have them at all for example, even the static libs in the windows dirs are gone. They also strip the with windows dlls using x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip and i686-w64-mingw32-strip

I will open an issue about this in the repo.

Samueru

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Re: Is there a reason that the wine package ships static libraries?

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/24

Well the reason is allow building with `winegcc`. Which I find odd, archlinux explicitly removes all static libs from llvm and that one is way more likely to fit that use case.

anyways, gonna be removing these manually.