[Bug 3689] Microsoft Office 97 fails to install: "accwiz.dll failed to register itself"

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3689





--- Comment #38 from Anastasius Focht <focht(a)gmx.net>  2009-04-02 18:29:42 ---
Hello,

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Thanks, Anastasius.  My first question is: are these dlls the same by their
exports? 
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At the time of Win95 the Operating System one and Office9x shipped one were
probably similar in exports/functionality.
Nowadays oleaut32 versions are much more evolved than Office9x shipped one
which dates back to 1996.

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 Then Wine could just simply fake one dll with another.
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As long as Office 97 components don't depend on internal
features/quirks/behaviour of that old oleaut32.dll, yes.
For tests just symlink oleaut32.dll.so to 32autole.dll.so and change the load
order to builtin-then-native. A placeholder in system32 is not needed.

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The second is: couldn't that be some other bug in Wine which prevents
32autole.dll from registering "stdole32.tlb" in v2 format correctly?  Of
course, I could take the TLB from Wine tree and investigate this on real
Windows myself.
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If you question my analysis you are free to investigate.

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The third question (not so personal) would be: 

Couldn't ITypeLib2_Constructor_SLTG() be used (from dlls/oleaut32/typelib.c) to
generate v1 format in Wine?
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You refer to the typelib loading part.
What you need is v1 typelib writer code like Wine's IDL compiler does for v2
typelibs (write_msft.c).

Regards


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