March 2008 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

by Austin English

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, James Hawkins <truiken(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: > > On the wine-users list, we're getting a lot of users who > > have old or even ancient .wine directories, and > > whose problems go away with a fresh .wine directory > > > > Perhaps we should have wineprefixcreate stamp the version > > of wine the .wine directory was created with, > > make wine-1.0 refuse to run with pre-1.0 .wine > > directories, and require that future versions > > of wine run properly with .wine directories created > > by any earlier stable release of wine. > > > > It wouldn't be hard, at least at first, and it might save a lot of > > support inquiries. What say? > > > > I can't find a quote of it anywhere, but I believe that a stable > wineprefix was a requirement (or at least a wish) of 1.0. > > -- > James Hawkins > > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9959 My comment from the bug: "How about a little file in .wine or a registry key that is read upon running wine, and should match the current wine version. If it doesn't, call wineprefixcreate (or pop up an error saying that the registry is outdated), which then updates that key to the current wine version. Shouldn't be too much overhead and prevents quite a few problems."

March 30, 2008

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

by Stefan Dösinger

Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 20:46:08 schrieb Austin English: > My comment from the bug: > "How about a little file in .wine or a registry key that is read upon > running wine, and should match the current wine version. If it doesn't, > call wineprefixcreate (or pop up an error saying that the registry is > outdated), which then updates that key to the current wine version. > Shouldn't be too much overhead and prevents quite a few problems." In the past I've had more problems with wineprefixcreate trashing my registry than I had with outdated registry entries. Especially if you have Internet Explorer or the DirectX SDK or runtime installed running wineprefixcreate has bad side effects.

March 30, 2008

Re: Proposal: versioning .wine directory

by James Hawkins

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: > On the wine-users list, we're getting a lot of users who > have old or even ancient .wine directories, and > whose problems go away with a fresh .wine directory > > Perhaps we should have wineprefixcreate stamp the version > of wine the .wine directory was created with, > make wine-1.0 refuse to run with pre-1.0 .wine > directories, and require that future versions > of wine run properly with .wine directories created > by any earlier stable release of wine. > > It wouldn't be hard, at least at first, and it might save a lot of > support inquiries. What say? > I can't find a quote of it anywhere, but I believe that a stable wineprefix was a requirement (or at least a wish) of 1.0. -- James Hawkins

March 30, 2008

Re: Don't bother...

by Hin-Tak Leung

--- On Sat, 29/3/08, pure_evil(a)mail.bg <pure_evil(a)mail.bg> wrote: > From: pure_evil(a)mail.bg <pure_evil(a)mail.bg> > Subject: Don't bother... > To: "Hin-Tak Leung" <hintak_leung(a)yahoo.co.uk> > Date: Saturday, 29 March, 2008, 5:51 PM > I tried compiling it against wine's source tree, it spat > out a bunch of > warnings. When I wrote to him, that's what he replied: > > >guess what, that's a different compiler. > 'winegcc' != 'mingw32'. Did I say > something about crosscompiling? AFAIK you dont (cant?) use > stuff compiled > with winegcc on windows because it depends on wine. > > >I just thought you might want to look at a sample that > builds and lives > outside so you could test you code on win too. > > So, it's not what you think it is :( It's not > usable as wine driver. I am a bit lost about your comments. I have both winegcc and mingw32. I am quite familar with the latter and new to the former. I am using the appropriate ones (mingw32 for the printproxy, and winegcc for ddiwrapper). The printerproxy needs cross-compiling (and it works alright against current wine), ddiwrapper needs to be built with winegcc (and does not build against current wine). __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

March 30, 2008

Proposal: versioning .wine directory

by Dan Kegel

On the wine-users list, we're getting a lot of users who have old or even ancient .wine directories, and whose problems go away with a fresh .wine directory Perhaps we should have wineprefixcreate stamp the version of wine the .wine directory was created with, make wine-1.0 refuse to run with pre-1.0 .wine directories, and require that future versions of wine run properly with .wine directories created by any earlier stable release of wine. It wouldn't be hard, at least at first, and it might save a lot of support inquiries. What say?

March 30, 2008

Wine 1.0 status: T minus 68 days. 73 open bugs.

by Dan Kegel

40 days to code freeze. One bug fixed in last couple days: 9459 -unknown 8 FIFA 2007 crashes with the recent versions One bug added: 12246 -unknown 0 "make test" gives different results with and without warn+heap One bug deferred: 4971 -unknown 3 Corel Draw 12 demo install fails History: 3/22: 87 bugs, 76 days to go 3/23: 82 bugs, 75 days to go 3/24: 78 bugs, 74 days to go 3/26: 74 bugs, 72 days to go 3/30: 73 bugs, 69 days to go Here's the current list of open bugs: 5948 -unknown 1 Star Trek: Armada does not install 5061 -unknown 6 Copying from Windows Firefox in Wine and pasting to Linux OpenOffice pastes metadata as data 7477 -unknown 1 Uplink demo crashes 12097 -unknown 2 Wine 1.0 should not ship out-of-sync resource translations 5055 -unknown 5 Deleting files from a window in wine doesn't send them to the Trash 5844 -unknown 11 tray minimize 11281 -unknown 2 CJK input many issues 10815 -unknown 2 Cannot drag images into Adobe Photoshop 7 from the web / desktop 5402 -unknown 0 Trying to run PhotoStitch 3.1 7404 -unknown 2 ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) should not generate a WM_PAINT message 9916 -unknown 6 "make test" usually fails 9178 -unknown 7 "hello world" dos program hangs 5024 -unknown 4 Thief: Deadly Shadows crashes:page fault on read access to 0x0000040c 12246 -unknown 0 "make test" gives different results with and without warn+heap 8125 -unknown 0 Marratech 6.1 crashes on start 10147 -unknown 1 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior differs from Windows 9959 -unknown 8 Make wine updates work even if the registry changed 556 build-en 1 Reconcile the Windows and Wine spec files 1114 comctl32 2 Winrar2.90/3.00: Comboex doesn't trigger a event when you mouse-click in some value of it 2493 comctl32 2 Multi-select listview: Shift-arrow up only selects top two items 11681 directx- 14 Add support for video overlay 5955 directx- 8 DirectDrawCreate crash on non-OpenGL desktop 9030 directx- 0 army men hangs on black screen 82 document 2 Stabilize Winelib User Guide Table of Contents 638 document 9 Document Wine debugging channels 9771 gdi32 38 Steam Friends doesn't work (fails to render correctly or refresh) 9926 gdi32 5 gdi32.dll should not have exported function pointers 3270 gdi32 15 Problem with minimized top-level windows 6519 gdi32 7 Wine blacks out rotated font bitmap 7571 gdi32 1 Accented character glyphs are mixed up with TrueType fonts (affects e.g. Lotus Notes R5) 9484 kernel32 17 Program refuses to run because of ProtectCD/ProtectDISC copy-protection 5351 kernel32 9 Windows Installer 3.1 cannot install because of non-standard drive labeling 5541 kernel32 0 WriteConsole can't write to stdout; affects e.g. wsh's cscript's usage message 9039 kernel32 0 GS-Auftrag Professional SQL aborts on startup 4733 kernel32 5 Get optimized/compressed/packed executables (non-upx) working 7098 mscoree 1 RufzXP crashes on startup, needs mscoree.dll.CorBindToRuntimeEx 5163 msi 12 Office XP 2002 crashes on installation 8783 ntdll 12 USB serial ports do not work 9356 ntdll 6 Serial communication not working since wine-0.9.33 6607 ole 9 Drag and Drop not working 2539 ole 3 XDND (Drag and drop for X Windows) doesn't copy text 8095 ole 0 PQ Teaching toy crashes 4770 ole 3 BlackBerry Device Manager fails to install under wine 9942 ole 2 Powerpoint Viewer 2007 crashes opening .pptx files 5926 programs 0 Wine does not provide an implementation of winhlp32.exe 6254 richedit 4 Installer infinite loop from rich text error 8898 shdocvw 0 Run Time Error "445": Object doesn't support this action in Europa Knowledgebase 9304 shdocvw 3 Temple of Elemental Evil demo doesn't start - gui irresponsive 3546 shdocvw 2 CLSID_InternetShortcut not available... 6095 shdocvw 12 MOTD in counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike source does not render 8439 shell32 8 Visual Studio .NET (7) install fails 10905 shell32 0 thinstall firefox demo requires native msvcrt 9809 shell32 4 Autodesk Revit Architecture 2008 install fails 11742 shlwapi 8 Small .net 1.1 app (FastMD5 1.3) fails to start up 12074 testcase 2 The conformance tests fail on Windows 6604 tools 2 Ship icons for the wine-tools that can be used in .desktop files 8246 urlmon 3 invoking htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW crashes wine 664 user32 6 The help menu functionality inside programs is broken (messaging problem) 4523 user32 5 Can't copy from Firefox 1.5 and paste into OpenOffice 2 under Wine 3023 user32 5 Orcad - "Place Part" never tries to put down a part 124 wineserv 2 Review of Wine Server Protocol 11019 winex11. 3 matlab r14 and r16 (7.0.4 and 7.3.0) and WriteItNow3.1.0s hang if X in 24bpp mode 7372 winex11. 12 can't copy and paste between gnome apps eg openoffice or gimp and wine apps such as dreamweaver or adobe photoshop 2368 winex11. 7 Wine loses its X-Window when switching to another virt. desktop in Fvwm 1990 winex11. 1 modifier keys not released when switching desktop 10984 winex11. 5 sun jre 5 update 10 installer hangs in 0.9.52 5623 winex11. 3 GetAsyncKeyState wrong if querying process doesn't have focus 5828 winex11. 24 Command and Conquer Generals (Zero Hour) doesn't change the mouse cursor from the default X mouse 3297 winex11. 12 UpdateWindow() doesn't call XFlush() 3711 wininet 1 Musicmatch fails to install (missing registry key, HTTP_HttpOpenRequest() problem) 5625 wininet 3 Wine does not handle internet proxy settings conveniently 9787 winsock 47 Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work (Needs AcceptEx) 12005 wintab32 0 Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7

March 30, 2008

re: Two more janitorial tasks

by Dan Kegel

> Use WriteConsoleW to output text to the console instead printf & co. Unless output is redirected to a file, in which case you have to jump through a couple hoops. See WCMD_output_asis_len(). If anybody breaks commandline usage again, I'm gonna myrtlize 'em :-) - Dan

March 30, 2008

strange menu behaviour

by Marcus Meissner

Hi, I am observing a strange menu behaviour. How to reproduce: - start notepad - move the mouse over "Search", do not click - press alt-f to get the file menu => the file menu flickers open, but suddenly switches to the search menu. It seems the menu code checks the mouse pointer even though it is not used for the menu activation. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12289 Ciao, Marcus

March 30, 2008

Re: find_dll_file ignoring WINEDLLPATH?

by Erik de Castro Lopo

John Klehm wrote: > Well you could have a script to recopy it there but there is one more > way I thought of that you could add the path (provided you dont remove > your .wine folder very often) > > wine regedit > > Then edit > \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session > Manager\Environment\Path Thanks for your helpful suggestions, but this still isn't a good solution. I hope to encourage others to do cross-compiled development of libsndfile from Linux to windows and I would like to have all of them hack their windows registry. It just seems too fragile. However, I notice that if instead of copying the library I make a symlink instead, the executable runs correctly. Of the solutions I've seen so far, this is the least fragile and most easily implementable solution. Cheers, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Testing can prove the presence of bugs, but never their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra

March 30, 2008

Re: find_dll_file ignoring WINEDLLPATH?

by John Klehm

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+win(a)mega-nerd.com> wrote: > > Your proposal of just copying the DLL is not a good solution in > this case because the copied executable could get out of sync > with the one in src/.libs, invalidating the tests. > Well you could have a script to recopy it there but there is one more way I thought of that you could add the path (provided you dont remove your .wine folder very often) wine regedit Then edit \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path Add your additional path dirs at the start. That will then permanently add those to your path (will get wiped if you reinstall your .wine folder though). Probably could get some kind of .reg file to do this automatically. --John

March 30, 2008