promovicz, 11 days ago

@whitequark can we try to put all the code in the registry? HKLN for HKey Linker Nightmare.

leonidas, 11 days ago

@whitequark Unikernel Windows 🙃

schrotthaufen, 11 days ago

@whitequark Nightmare fuel

whitequark, 11 days ago

except for ntdll i guess

whitequark, 11 days ago

also merge every executable into one giant executable by extensive symbol mangling

busybox windows

whitequark, 11 days ago

now i want to write a pe file merger

promovicz, 11 days ago

@whitequark thunk you.

promovicz, 11 days ago

@whitequark I might have used one, actually - but it was very very bad-dirty, linking the 3D package into our engine to access their file formats, using multiple versions of image processing libraries at the same time kind-of-stuff…

whitequark, 11 days ago

how hard can it be to package the entirety of chromium, including the resources, into a single extensively-virtualized executable

mxk, 11 days ago

@whitequark given the sandboxing that chrome tries to do internally, and that you must not break:
not trivial in my experience.

whitequark, 11 days ago

@mxk this adds to the challenge, yes!

unnick, 11 days ago

@whitequark i hadnt read the thread and thought you were gonna try compiling chromium to wasm until i read the last part

whitequark, 11 days ago

@unnick i would also do that

eater, 11 days ago

@whitequark this reminds me of when i tried to cross compile windows openmw from linux and was having difficulties with linking and eventually had a 2GB executable which had the whole Qt framework statically linked in

scherzog, 11 days ago

@whitequark Pretty sure people will accuse you of having rewritten it in rust due to the file size at that point

whitequark, 11 days ago

@scherzog this is funny to hear considering that monomorphization, which plagues certain kinds of rust code, is already a problem for c++ that is extensively used in windows

sanfierro, 11 days ago

@whitequark or one giant ELF file.
And also: a Linux distro with everything inside a giant PE file (as far as I understand, Linux already can do that for the kernel so that BIOS loads it as a bootloader)

dalias, 11 days ago

@sanfierro @whitequark No, there's just a bootloader that the UEFI or whatever can load, that basically in turn loads the ELF file.

whitequark, 11 days ago

@dalias @sanfierro but the kernel can be loaded directly too

sanfierro, 11 days ago

@whitequark @dalias Oh, wait, I just thought a thought. Does /usr/bin/wine basically play the same role as /lib64/ld_linux_x86_64.so.2, just for PE files instead of ELF files?

whitequark, 11 days ago

@sanfierro @dalias kiiiiinda but it's way more complex in practice