February 2004 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

manpage slimmed down?
by cedric 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Hi, recently i upgraded from 20031118 to 20040121. I noticed a lot of bugfixes and speed increases. Thanks! However, i don't like the new man.1 page as much as i did the one from 20031118. The section about what debug channels wine has is gone. This was nice info to have under 'man wine'. Why is it removed? Regards, cedric P.S. Sorry for posting a complaint as my very first post to this list. -- No microsoft products were used for this e-mail

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IE6 Security Controls/URLMon;msimtf (nhl 2004)
by Abdul-Haseeb Ahmad 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Okay when i use IE6 (installed by mike's script) any webpage that uses an activex control says my security settings are too high, even if i lower them (both custom settings and the slider have no effect), or even if i make the site a trusted website... now i believe this might be what be causing problems with NHL2004 because i get a script error 80040154 (which doesnt let me go in game) when i go to the game setup screen(rest of the game is flawless other than DXImageTransform filters not functioning), which is caused by a missing CLSID entry.. so i checked out the errors I was getting and urlmon.dll wasn't registered and neither was msimtf... now the thing that nhl was trying to call was the security manager which is part of urlmon.dll.. when i registered urlmon, it would crash the game, and i can't get msimtf to register because of problems it has with advapi32/user32 implementations... Im not sure what msimtf does, but i have a hunch that clearing the urlmon issue might solve my problems.. anyone have an idea of what i can do to solve this issue? Theres also an error: fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoA Unknown action: 8198 I have a feeling this is harmless though...

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Are bugzilla patches getting in?
by Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Hello everybody. I'm new to the developers list. I have a question about patches in bugzilla. Do developers usually read the bug reports to check for patches? Or is it better to send them directly to wine-patches? I'm talking about the following (minor) bugs, just in case: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1981 Thanks in advance. -- Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi <lquijano(a)hotpop.com>

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Update: starcraft runs faster from debugger!
by cedric 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

crossposted to wine-dev, and wine-users Hi, I've done some more tests, and i found that when i run winedbg starcraft and wine starcraft and then again winedbg starcraft etc. It works, but always following this pattern: <boot my box> winedbg starcraft :all runs perfectly wine starcraft: all video choppy winedbg starcraft :all runs perfectly winedbg starcraft: all video choppy wine starcraft all video choppy winedbg starcraft: :all runs perfectly Looks like winedbg leaves some things in a bad state, and running wine seems to solve the problems. However, after each run of winedbg i have 4 more of these: 1797 pts/0 00:00:01 wine-kthread <defunct> And after about 4 or 5 times trying the wine trick doesn't work anymore, Whatever i do the game starts choppy. I don't know how to trace a program while it's running from the debugger, winededbg --debugmsg +x11drv <prog> doesn't seem to work. How is the corrrect startline? The trace from wine shows that DGA is disabled (even with /dev/mem set at 777) Can somebody confirm this pattern of events? you need ,wine-20040121 (haven't tried other versions) and starcraft retail or starcraft shareware to reproduce this. The shareware version of starcraft should be available at: www.blizzard.com Regards, cedric -- No microsoft products were used for this e-mail

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programs/winedbg/elf.c breaks non-Linux platforms
by Gerald Pfeifer 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Hi, I'm afraid the following patch which added programs/winedbg/elf.c date: 2004/02/03 00:14:12; author: julliard; state: Exp; Eric Pouech <pouech-eric(a)wanadoo.fr> - now detecting Dwarf debug information in ELF modules (but don't load it) - separated module management (pe.c, elf.c) from debug information management (stabs.c, msc.c) - worked around new wine-pthread and wine-kthread loaders (no longer use "wine" as default loader) - better convergence of gdb-proxy and winedbg for ELF handling - fixed ELF link-map walking - now using all loaded shared libs - (with the help of Robert Shearman) - added a bit of const correctness breaks building Wine on non-Linux platforms. For example, on FreeBSD 4.9 I'm seeing: elf.c: In function `DEBUG_ProcessElfFile': elf.c:344: error: `DT_NUM' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:344: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once elf.c:344: error: for each function it appears in.) elf.c:344: error: `DT_PROCNUM' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:344: error: `DT_EXTRANUM' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:345: error: `DT_LOOS' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:345: error: `DT_HIOS' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:346: error: `DT_LOPROC' undeclared (first use in this function) elf.c:346: error: `DT_HIPROC' undeclared (first use in this function) Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) gerald(a)pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

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Wineboot should process RunOnceEx Entries
by Geoffrey Antos 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

I saw early postings about RunOnceEx in this mailing list circa January 2003, however the problems they presented were never fixed. Some programs come with simple INF installers because people can cheaply create an INF file, and use a free Setup.exe bootstrap file that reads the name of an INF file from Setup.ini or something similar. These programs do not have any way of processing RunOnceEx themselves. In the distant past before I had converted to Linux and wine, I used to deal with such programs quite a bit; RunOnceEx was Microsoft's way of allowing simple installers to register files, especially if a reboot and wininit was necessary to overwrite files. The basic structure of the registry format is: [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\RunOnceEx\\Number] "Number"="program.exe arguments" "Number"="c:\\somepath\\somedll.dll|SomeExportedFunction" Number is nothing more than a number. All commands are processed in sequential order, first by key, then by value. If there is no pipe symbol in the line ('|'), the data of the value is executed as a program, with all following tokens passed on as arguments. However, if the pipe symbol is included, the portion to the left is treated as a DLL, and calls the exported function of the name to the right of the symbol. Once all values in a key are processed, the key is deleted, and the process starts with the next key. There is one subkey that has a special meaning: All keys/values in [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\RunOnceEx\\Setup] are not processed at boot-up. Rather, they are read by the program runonce.exe, not included in wine. It is through this key that one gets the annoying "Updating Windows" box in the upper left corner of the screen, listing tasks being performed. I believe Powertoys for Windows 98 utilized this feature, but I do not remember how. However, these days RunOnceEx still has one important feature: Some people, like me, have programs that fail to load objects because the OS version is not set to XP. When the OS is set to xp, the install-ie6 script does not automatically process the RunOnceEx keys, failling to register all of the DLL's, including the Crypto support needed for programs such as Steam. As such, for IE6 alone, users have to process 50+ lines by hand, in something that SHOULD be processed at bootup, via wineboot.

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Update: starcraft runs faster from debugger!
by cedric 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

crossposted to wine-dev, and wine-users Hi, I've done some more tests, and i found that when i run winedbg starcraft and wine starcraft and then again winedbg starcraft etc. It works, but always following this pattern: <boot my box> winedbg starcraft :all runs perfectly wine starcraft: all video choppy winedbg starcraft :all runs perfectly winedbg starcraft: all video choppy wine starcraft all video choppy winedbg starcraft: :all runs perfectly Looks like winedbg leaves some things in a bad state, and running wine seems to solve the problems. However, after each run of winedbg i have 4 more of these: 1797 pts/0 00:00:01 wine-kthread <defunct> And after about 4 or 5 times trying the wine trick doesn't work anymore, Whatever i do the game starts choppy. I don't know how to trace a program while it's running from the debugger, winededbg --debugmsg +x11drv <prog> doesn't seem to work. How is the corrrect startline? The trace from wine shows that DGA is disabled (even with /dev/mem set at 777) Can somebody confirm this pattern of events? you need ,wine-20040121 (haven't tried other versions) and starcraft retail or starcraft shareware to reproduce this. The shareware version of starcraft should be available at: www.blizzard.com Regards, cedric -- No microsoft products were used for this e-mail

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Re: PATCH: virtual fixes for native mode
by Juan Lang 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Hi Uwe, in NT the native (system call) interface is through ntdll. There are a number of subsystems implemented on top of that: the win32 subsystem, the posix subsystem, and the OS/2 subsystem. It's possible however to write an app that just uses ntdll; this is a "native" NT app. This page has a pretty good explanation: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/native.shtml --Juan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: PATCH: virtual fixes for native mode
by Uwe Bonnes 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Meissner <marcus(a)jet.franken.de> writes: Marcus> Hi, This is the next try for assisting loading NT native dlls. Marcus> We need non-page aligned access for those drvs, which have Marcus> sections that are not page aligned. Marcus> Also some bad magic tries to write the import thunks into Marcus> thefirst page, so we need to map the header r/w too. Marcus> Ciao, Marcus Marcus> Changelog: Added possibility to map native mode dlls which have Marcus> sections that are not page aligned. What are native NT dlls? An explanation is appreciated! Thanks -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------

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Re: DOC: improvement to the cross-compiling of the tests (take 2)
by Dimitrie O. Paun 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Michael Stefaniuc wrote: > Hello, > > Alexandre, please use this patch instead. Funny, funny :) -- Dimi. P.S. No patch attached.

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