September 2001 - Wine-Devel

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Ove Kaaven

Almost there, here's the current state of the patch, now with more hacks than ever before (but you also need the MoveFileEx and DispGetParam patches I've submitted to wine-patches). The current showstopper is a bug in Wine's SLTG typelib loader (it crashes reading the iuser.dll typelib resource). I think that once that typelib bug is fixed, it should only have minor issues left, or even work outright... I've already mailed Huw about the problem, but if anyone else wants to fix it, *I* don't mind...

Sept. 30, 2001

DdeConnect errors while running setup.exe

by Ian D . Stewart

Dear Wine Developers, Due to resource constraints (75 MHz processor, 1.2 GB hard drive, 16 MB RAM), we recently replaced Windows98 on our daughter's PC with Linux Mandrake, using the IceWM window manager. It isn't quite as flashy as Windows, but it boots beyond the startup screen, which is more than can be said for Win98. Well, to make a long story short, I've installed and configured Wine following the instructions in the Wine User's Guide. Everything seems to be working properly, but when I attempted to run the setup.exe for 'Jim Henson Muppets Letters: Capital & Small', I received the following errors: err:ddeml:DdeConnect .. but no Server window available err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle fixme:ddeml:DdeUninitialize16 stub calling DdeUninitialize Following the recomendations in the Wine User's Guide, section 3.2 (Installing Wine Without Windows), I re-ran wine with --debug msg +module,+file. I didn't see anything in the trace that jumped out at me, but I've attached it here, just in case it means something to someone else. One last thing. The setup.exe appears to be a 16-bit app, originally designed for Windows 3.1. Not sure if that makes any difference or not. Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Ian D. Stewart -- "God may have mercy. We will not." --Senator John S. McCain (R-AZ)

Sept. 30, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Ove Kaaven

OK, we finally figured out the problem... here are updated proxy.c files that, when you also apply the MoveFileEx patch, manages to run through the "Preparing InstallShield Wizard" progress bar before it stops on unimplemented rpcrt4 stuff. I'm working on it...

Sept. 30, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Gerard Patel

At 03:11 AM 29/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: >> Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps >> you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed? > > > No , I did that.. Well, did you import all the registry entries in winedefault.reg then ? Gerard

Sept. 30, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Andreas Mohr

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:26:12AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Gerard Patel wrote: > > > > At 03:11 AM 29/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > >> Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps > > >> you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed? > > > > > > > > > No , I did that.. > > > > Well, did you import all the registry entries in winedefault.reg then ? > > No, that wasn't part of the "instructions" .. That's completely and utterly *required* for about anything that you intend to run on Wine, so of course it's not mentioned in the "instructions" ! (well, it's not that bad, but that's nearly the extent of it) -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/

Sept. 29, 2001

Bug in CreateWindowEx

by Luke Stras

I'm trying to get Civ2 to run under wine (checked out via CVS today), and I've run into a particular problem. The installation is totally stand-alone -- all DLLs are built-in. I get an invalid page fault in X11DRV_GetDC [winpos.c:441], at the line which says: drawable = data->client_window Some debugger work shows that data is NULL. Now, the backtrace shows that we get *here* from a call to WIN_GetMinMaxInfo from CreateWindowEx [win.c:885]. The problem, as I see it, is that USER_Driver.pCreateWindow doesn't get called until [win.c:922] -- in other words, when the callback inside Civ2 receives the WM_GETMINMAXINFO, it tries acquiring a DC for some reason, and this causes the crash. Now, I don't know enough about how wine works internall to fix this. Can anyone provide any suggestions? -- Luke Stras <stras(a)utias.toronto.edu> "The meek can have the Earth; the rest of us have other plans" --Henry Spencer

Sept. 29, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Ove Kaaven

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Daniel Walker wrote: > > I got a marshalling error from IKernel.exe .. > > trace:ole:StdMarshal_Release (0x403ab9f0)->Release() > trace:ole:LRPC_feed marshalling error 80070057 > trace:ole:RpcChannel_Release (0x403ab9a0)->Release() > > If that means anything .. Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed?

Sept. 29, 2001

installshield 6

by Daniel Walker

Is there a specific application that I should be attempting to install ? Or is there a specific version of stdole32.tlb that I need ? Daniel Walker

Sept. 29, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Daniel Walker

In that case I assume I've done it then .. I'm not using a native registry.. Daniel Walker Andreas Mohr wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:26:12AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Gerard Patel wrote: > > > > > > At 03:11 AM 29/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > > >> Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps > > > >> you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed? > > > > > > > > > > > > No , I did that.. > > > > > > Well, did you import all the registry entries in winedefault.reg then ? > > > > No, that wasn't part of the "instructions" .. > That's completely and utterly *required* for about anything that you > intend to run on Wine, so of course it's not mentioned > in the "instructions" ! > (well, it's not that bad, but that's nearly the extent of it)

Sept. 29, 2001

Re: InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

by Daniel Walker

Gerard Patel wrote: > > At 03:11 AM 29/09/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >> Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps > >> you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed? > > > > > > No , I did that.. > > Well, did you import all the registry entries in winedefault.reg then ? No, that wasn't part of the "instructions" .. Daniel Walker

Sept. 29, 2001