Re: mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory

[Vincent Povirk]

This seems suspicious to me. You appear to be taking the namespace of
the class and assuming it's an assembly name.

Is there really no other information in the registry that could be
used to identify the assembly?

mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory

[Daniel Jeliński]

Hi Vincent,
there's no more info in the registry. At this point we have the assembly
name and we know that it is not in GAC, so either it is in current
directory or it's absent.

That being said, I think this is the wrong place for this change. Method
get_file_from_strongname [1] is better suited for that purpose IMO.
Also MSDN states that assembly name is not equivalent to file name. I
suppose that code to resolve assembly name into file name exists somewhere
in fusion.dll, but I have never seen it. Hans may know more.

Regards,
Daniel

[1] http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/mscoree/metahost.c#L1213


2013/8/14 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd(a)gmail.com>
> This seems suspicious to me. You appear to be taking the namespace of
> the class and assuming it's an assembly name.
>
> Is there really no other information in the registry that could be
> used to identify the assembly?

mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory

[Vincent Povirk]

If we have the assembly name, then we should be using that to decide
on the filename to try in the application directory, not the
namespace.

mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory

[Vincent Povirk]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Jeliński <djelinski1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That being said, I think this is the wrong place for this change. Method
> get_file_from_strongname [1] is better suited for that purpose IMO.

Doing it that way is probably more correct, but it's also more
dangerous because it would affect all assembly lookups. We'd then want
to check the precedence of dll's in the application directory vs. the
GAC, what happens when the filename matches but the strongname does
not, and whether other directories in the dll search path should be
considered.

mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory

[Alistair Leslie-Hughes]

On 15/08/2013 2:41 AM, Vincent Povirk wrote:
> This seems suspicious to me. You appear to be taking the namespace of
> the class and assuming it's an assembly name.
>
> Is there really no other information in the registry that could be
> used to identify the assembly?

I'll have another look to see if it can be done a better way.

Alistair.