February 2001 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Strange wine crashes with /dos mounted "rw" with Unreal
by FT Rathore 20 Feb '01

20 Feb '01

Hi I have been trying to run Unreal on wine with windows partition mounted with permission set so wine can write to it. It always crashes strangly I dont get any clues. If I mount /dos in a way that wine cannot write to it, Unreal runs perfectly. This problem only occurs with Unreal. I need write access so that I can save the games. Anyone else have similar problem?. I am about to start rolling up my sleeves and debug it. Any idea what info will help. FT

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Re: Perl/Wine extension for perusal
by Jeremy White 20 Feb '01

20 Feb '01

I believe that the mailer ate my homework...er...email, so please forgive me if this is a duplicate message: > I also started to think (and write the very first pieces) of a test > harness. If you like to, I'm fully open to discuss all that with you. I think it would be great if we could start to define (and build) a test harness. I think that there are a lot of people who would help write test scripts, who might otherwise be unable to help with Wine development. The more the merrier, I always say... What did you have in mind? Our thinking, beyond building the Perl based winetest, hasn't gone very far. I think we've imagined the following: make test Performs an automated, non interactive regression test and returns true or false. make interactive-test Runs through interactive tests that require user interaction with the system; user confirms or denies their results. Both of these test runs could also be done on a Windows box, so that an exact 1:1 comparison could be made. Of course, the hard part is figuring out how to do the interactive-test. We've thought about trying to automate it (screen shots, simulating mouse movements, all that good stuff), but I don't think we have an obvious or brilliant idea. We looked into tools for that, but found no good free ones; there is also a suspicion that an X based test tool won't be enough for Wine. Thoughts? Jer

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Re: Baldurs Gate 2 near perfect with transgaming and disk change problem
by FT Rathore 20 Feb '01

20 Feb '01

Sorry for the delay I was out. I only tested an existing BG2 installation which was installed using winblowz. The DLL order was default (from stock wine installation). FT On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Malte Cornils wrote: > Hi, > > have you installed BG2 in a completely non-windows setup? If not, > did you install it in Linux or in Windows and just *run* it in > Linux? > > Also, does the configuration program work for you with builtin DLLs? > > Thanks so far, > > and feel free to cc this to wine-devel, but maybe we should change > to the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, it might be more > appropriate there. > > Yours Malte #8-) >

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GetFullPathName & trailing backslash in path arg (Heroes of Might & Magic III problem)
by Tadeusz Szczyrba 20 Feb '01

20 Feb '01

It looks like GetFullPathName kernel.dll API func preserves trailing backslash, given in path argument, but implementation of this func in wine (files/dos_fs.c) removes it from return value (code starting at line 1300 in this file). Info about behavior taken from http://www.clubs.psu.edu/perldoc/lib/Pod/Win32.html (I don't have authorized windows api reference and even don't want to look for it - regular wine developer can check this in seconds). Removal 3 lines of code from this file cures runtime of "Heroes of Might & Magic III" (and I don't know what too). Regards TreV__ -- Tadeusz Szczyrba trevor(a)pik-net.pl

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Re: [gphoto-devel] Running Polaroid PhotoMax under wine
by Nathan Stenzel 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

It would be really nice if TWAIN and WINE would work together to support TWAIN compatable drivers under Linux. Surely this would be much easier than every piece of hardware having a Linux driver hacked for it. It would open up the hardware makers to a whole new operating system too. I would hope that all the TWAIN drivers would have a way to run on any OS. TWAIN is supposed to be a standard afterall and standards are supposed to make things easier. I decided this was an interesting idea so I am sending copies of this to various other newsgroups (some of which I am not subscribed to). > I set wine up for the express purpose of seeing if the windoze > software would download the pictures from my camera. I had the same > problem with the buttons not showing up in PhotoMAX, but I got > Irfanview to run successfully. However, it wouldn't acknowledge the > existence of the camera, so I posted to the wine newsgroup about it. > They said that the function calls required by the TWAIN driver(s) > aren't [yet?] implemented. > > Regards, > Ben

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GDI.EXE
by Johan Gill 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

Since some apps require a gdi.exe file containing version info, Wine won't be independent until the need for a true gdi.exe is removed. Are there any plans on how this should be achieved? /Johan Gill, johane(a)lysator.liu.se

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Re: Overlapped read/write fix
by Ove Kaaven 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Eric Kohl wrote: > This patch fixes the MS Jet Database Engine. Overlapped reads and writes > must fail on Win9x. That would depend on the file type. Overlapped read and write is supposed to be allowed for sockets and serial ports even on win9x, but for ordinary files only on winNT, as far as I remember.

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dlls/winsock/socket.c patch
by Chris Morgan 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

Should we be preserving the values of he, se, pe in the delete? This fixes a problem Jutta Wrage was having with Agent mailreader(win16 app).

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Wine & Wrapster/UnWrapper/etc
by David Luyer 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

Just a potentially useful data point, since the Wrapster source is freely available on their website (it's written in PASCAL). Wrapster and UnWrapper won't work under WINE 20010112. Wrapster appears to sit in an infinite loop when asked to unwrap a file (although it's a 180Mb+ file so it may be doing something, but strace implies it's sitting there being confused, since it continually lstat()'s the destination directory and then does some miscellaneous memory mapping and unmapping). UnWrapper (2.x and 3.x) simply die on startup. (And yes, I know there's a Linux version - but it doesn't do a fraction of what the Windows version does, eg, CRC checks and new file formats. So I was hoping to check if the archive I have was corrupt without having to do development on grapster first... other than the fixes I already had to do to get dewrapster to handle large files :-).) I am no longer on this list, so please CC any response to me (especially of the form "it actually works with the latest CVS and some custom patch" :-)), thanks in advance. David. (I wonder how PC-PINE is working these days, it's C source was available and it used to not work so well under WINE either...) -- David Luyer Phone: +61 3 9674 7525 Senior Network Engineer P A C I F I C Fax: +61 3 9699 8693 Pacific Internet (Australia) I N T E R N E T Mobile: +61 4 1111 2983 http://www.pacific.net.au/ NASDAQ: PCNTF

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mailserver operational
by Ove Kaaven 19 Feb '01

19 Feb '01

Bad rumors still abound about sendmail anyway, so I just installed exim... hopefully this won't cause problems...

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