July 2009 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Wine to be used as botnet testbed
by Maik Schulz July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

More in the linked New York Times article, Sandia National Labs plans to have a Dell super computer run 1 million Linux instances using Wine to host and study a botnet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1 Does someone on the list have more detailed information on or is even involved with it? How about we post about this on winehq.org as well? Would be a departure from posing only about new releases and WWN issues, but it could make winehq.org more interesting for users... I'd volunteer... Cheers, -Maik

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Re: winecfg: Add toggle for systray visibility
by Roderick Colenbrander July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

Hi Andrew, Good that you have removed the unneeded changes. I'm wondering where the support in winex11.drv is for the winecfg option you added. My git version doesn't have it and I can't remember seeing patches for it (though I might have missed them). If these patches indeed have not been submitted, I would urge you to submit those first. Regards, Roderick On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Andrew Eikum<aeikum(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: > --- > programs/winecfg/En.rc | 2 ++ > programs/winecfg/resource.h | 1 + > programs/winecfg/theme.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > >

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Re: [6/6] hnetcfg: Register interfaces.
by Austin English July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Hans Leidekker<hans(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: > On Thursday 30 July 2009 05:17:07 pm you wrote: > >> What is this series for, if you don't mind my asking? >> >> The iTunes installer/other applications looking for the XP firewall? > > Yes, this brings the iTunes installer to the next bug ;-) Great work! Which bug is that? -- -Austin

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Re: winecfg: Add toggle for systray visibility
by Roderick Colenbrander July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

Hi Andrew, First of all it seems that the patch makes more changes than needed (e.g. lost of changes in En.rc. Second why is this patch needed? Various apps need the systray for proper functioning and hiding it doesn't look that nice to me.. Roderick On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Andrew Eikum<aeikum(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: > --- > programs/winecfg/En.rc | 21 +++++++++++---------- > programs/winecfg/resource.h | 1 + > programs/winecfg/x11drvdlg.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > > > > > >

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Question about the gphoto2.ds resources
by Paul Vriens July 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

Hi Marcus, I've noticed some strange output with transl: http://source.winehq.org/transl/resource.php?lang=013%3A00&resfile=dlls%2Fg… When I look at the defined resources for the first dialog I see: IDD_CAMERAUI DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 372, 273 STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_SETFOREGROUND | DS_CENTER | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU CAPTION "Files on Camera" MENU 20545 That MENU however is not defined anywhere. Can you remember (2006!) why that MENU entry was put in there? Mind you, I think transl should be able to cope with it, but I'm just checking if that entry can be removed. -- Cheers, Paul.

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Adding a pedantic version of transl
by Paul Vriens July 29, 2009

July 29, 2009

Hi, Currently transl doesn't show potential translation errors on a higher level. I'm busy implementing a more pedantic version of transl that shows the potential translation errors on the resfile pages (see attached screenshot). I'm now looking for the best way to get into pedantic mode. Will a simple link on that page do? It will always show a link to the other mode of course. We don't want this on by default as there are a lot of false positives, just think of all those "OK" buttons and it will take some performance to present this. Once this is dealt with I will start with a pedantic mode on an even higher level (the lang page). This however only if it doesn't take too much of a performance hit. -- Cheers, Paul.

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Re: Revert "winealsa.drv: Re-allow fallback to waveout (regression in dsound)."
by Maarten Lankhorst July 29, 2009

July 29, 2009

Heu, Fixing the bug would help, I replied on that bugtracker that I need more information since I'm not bit by that bug myself, but completely reverting a commit just because it has a bug for someone isn't particularly helpful. If you go to winecfg and set acceleration to emulation the old code path continues to be used, this is about using the other path. Cheers, Maarten

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Re: Revert "winealsa.drv: Re-allow fallback to waveout (regression in dsound)."
by Henri Verbeet July 29, 2009

July 29, 2009

2009/7/28 Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst(a)gmail.com>: > This reverts commit 0addd3ba5a7c1de970d1829f77969e5331ad2be0. > > It doesn't fix anything, it just hides the bug. Wouldn't it be helpful to fix the bug first?

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Testers on windows needed
by Stefan Leichter July 28, 2009

July 28, 2009

Hello, i'm looking for some good souls testing the attached patch one windows. While looking for bug 7701 i found that the function __vbaNew2 of the MSVBVM60.dll does not like return values from SHGetFileInfoA bigger than 0x7fff Can you please report at least the results of the trace statements and if any modified test fails for you, the console output is fine for me too. Thanks for your help Stefan

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coordinating efforts wrt rejected patches
by Vincent Povirk July 28, 2009

July 28, 2009

Some people have expressed interest recently in finding patches that have been sent to wine-patches and have not yet been accepted into winehq. The hope is that we can put some effort into getting feedback to the authors of recent ones, and maybe the old abandoned patches will catch the interest of some wandering developers. Sifting them out from the wine-patches archives is unfortunately not trivial. I'm way too lazy to try to create a bot for this, but I figure there may be enough interest to do it manually, going through the wine-patches messages and searching for similarly-named messages in wine-patches and wine-cvs. We just need to make sure we don't duplicate effort. If people end up using this information effectively, maybe someone will write a bot. If not, well, then it's good no one wasted time on it. To this end, I have created this wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/RejectedPatches I've gone through the submissions to wine-patches over one day and added the rejected entries to that page, sorted based on whether there's been a response. Anyone is welcome to use/update this information as they see fit and to expand the range of checked messages (but not into the future, at least until we get another round of commits). -- Vincent Povirk

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Re: Adding a pedantic version of transl
by Paul Vriens July 28, 2009

July 28, 2009

Aurimas Fišeras wrote: > On 2009.07.28 11:28, Paul Vriens wrote: >> Some screenshots for the curious: >> >> lang page: http://imgshack.info/images/e2wsftgyxwt3bxetbbq.png >> resfile page: http://imgshack.info/images/2w6rs7xm5uggsfplc5ke.png >> > Nice. > > One thought, columns "translated, errors" in "Modules not translated" > and "missing, errors" in "Fully translated modules" are always zero, so > I think they should be removed. Sure, can be done but let's wait what others have to say. -- Cheers, Paul.

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Cleaning up the winehq.org website
by Scott Ritchie July 28, 2009

July 28, 2009

Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a lot of the actual words trouble me. There's a lot of stuff from the dark ages still lurking around that we don't actually want users to see. Accordingly, I've been rewriting and deleting a few things and will be sending lostwages patches in, however I'd like to discuss the changes here in case there's any objections. 1) Delete the "Link to us" section on the downloads page. No one uses this graphic and the information is just noise. 2) Remove the unmaintained porting status page: http://www.winehq.org/status/porting - I don't believe this data is useful to anyone, and if it is it should be imported into the wiki so it can actually be updated. 3) Remove the "Wine Features" page: http://www.winehq.org/wine_features - From a user's perspective, the main feature of Wine can be communicated very simply: run Windows programs. We can do this much more effectively earlier in the website, such as on the About page. More worrisome about the features page, though, is what it doesn't contain - a user seeing a (seemingly) exhaustive list and actually reading it might incorrectly conclude that his particular program or device doesn't work. The features page is also prone to be out of date. I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us as amateurish or too complicated based on our web site. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

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spam post on wine-users forum...
by Dan Kegel July 28, 2009

July 28, 2009

What's the procedure for dealing with forum spam like http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5655 ?

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Re: [2/5] ntdll/tests: Implement tests for data execution prevention.
by Dmitry Timoshkov July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

"Michael Karcher" <wine(a)mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > The tests will be skipped on Wine until next patch, as the > not-yet-implemented NtQueryInformationProcess(...,ProcessExecuteFlags,...,...) > call is used to detect a DEP-capable platform. These tests should added to existing dlls/ntdll/tests/exception.c framework. -- Dmitry.

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Help resources for wine-users mailing list
by Frédéric Delanoy July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

Over and over, I see help requests on wine-users with responses like "installed latest wine", "read FAQ section x.y", ... Wouldn't it be useful to send a regular reminder (like every month, and on subscription)? This would contain: - how to upgrade to latest version - link to FAQ - link to bugzilla + how to look for dups before creating new bugs - <everything useful> This would avoid countless identical responses to common problems, and help reduce traffic on wine-users, hence concentrating on "difficult" problems. Frédéric

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Re: [1/5] ntdll: Fix ProcessExecuteFlag logic
by Dmitry Timoshkov July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

"Michael Karcher" <wine(a)mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > The meaning of "enable" is the same in Windows and Wine: it enables the > execute permission, not the data execution prevention. This patch precedes > the test as the inverted logic would make the test case fail in interesting > ways. There is no sense in first adding a lot of (partly conditional) > todo_wines to the test just to make this fix come later. JFYI, I based my original patch on the information at http://www.uninformed.org/?v=2&a=4 (To enable NX support, the MEM_EXECUTE_OPTION_DISABLE flag (0x1) is specified. To disable NX support, the MEM_EXECUTE_OPTION_ENABLE flag (0x2) is specified) and Chromium sources: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/sandbox/src/dep.cc -- Dmitry.

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Wine on cygwin
by dominik July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

Hi all, I've just tried to build wine on cygwin in order to build the test suite in order to maybe find out why some tests fail on my machine. configure runs reasonably well, but when the first dll is being built, hell breaks loose. The assembler files generated from the .spec files are not accepted by "as". .section ".init","ax" yields a.0dtc3a.s: Assembler messages: a.0dtc3a.s:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `"' Then there is: .hidden __wine_spec_nt_header => a.0dtc3a.s:14: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.hidden' .type __wine_stub_EditAuditInfo,@function => a.iNk2s9.s:81: Warning: .type pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef ignored. a.iNk2s9.s:81: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `_' and much more ... Are those Linux-specific assembler directives ? Does anybody have an idea on how to workaround those ? Regards Dominik

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Re: comctl32: stop flicker when drawing themed
by Frank Richter July 26, 2009

July 26, 2009

On 26.07.2009 15:57, André Hentschel wrote: > ...and draw the correct image smothly. > the code shouldnt have been copied and paste from the unthemed code. This changes the appearance of progress bars: now they look always "smooth" when themed. But on Windows they look always "chunky" when themed. -f.r.

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Re: ntdll: spellingfix in a comment
by Frédéric Delanoy July 26, 2009

July 26, 2009

On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, André Hentschel wrote: > --- > dlls/ntdll/server.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iff could be an abbreviation for "if and only if" (equivalence relationship), so it may not be an error after all (but I haven't checked the code). Frédéric

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[2/2] msxml3: Register Missing Components
by Pat Renton July 26, 2009

July 26, 2009

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Fun news about CodeWeavers
by Jeremy White July 26, 2009

July 26, 2009

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20090724/ *grin* Cheers, Jeremy

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Re: Create our own temp directory to make sure it's not the Windows directory.
by Paul Vriens July 25, 2009

July 25, 2009

Hi Alexandre, This one introduced a test failure on several W2K, XP and W2K3 boxes. No idea why (yet) though. -- Cheers, Paul.

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Revised How-to for ODBC Databases: Jet/Access success
by Barry Bird July 25, 2009

July 25, 2009

Hello folks, after email conversation with James McKenzie, here is my revised how-to Access 2000 can work with Wine, but this how-to doesn't require Microsoft Access. How to set up Wine to enable Windows programs that read and write to Jet (Access) databases using ODBC. I write such programs in C and use the API defined in ODBC API Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714562%28VS.85%29.aspx They work fine on Windows and only require Mingw to be installed to compile and link them, both for console programs and those using Windows SDK. You then can write interactive programs in C which use a full-featured SQL database which comes bundled with Windows. No need to purchase Access. With the set-up below they will also run on Linux (Kubuntu 9.04) and Wine 1.1.26. Install Jet Service Pack 4.0 and MDAC 2.8 thus: winetricks jet40 mdac28 You need to update the registry to 'install' the Access drivers for ODBC. Under Windows, export from the Registry to a *.reg file the registry entry - HKLM\Software\ODBC all subsidiary keys and values come with it. You can carefully edit this file to remove drivers and DSNs you don't need. Import this file using the registry editor in wine: wine regedit.exe. To use Windows ODBC drivers, you have to override Wine's odbccp32.dll and odbc32.dll with the native versions because the Wine versions are currently wired directly to Linux's unixodbc. Change the default setting for these DLLs using winecfg: Select Default Settings in the Applications tab. Then in the Libraries tab, select each of existing overrides for odbc32.dll and odbccp32.dll and edit them to be Native for Windows. Bring across the programs and *.mdb database files from Windows. If you need to set up (System) DSNs, enter wine odbcad32.exe this brings up the ODBC Data Source Administrator window as in the Windows Control Panel which you can use in the normal way to enter a DSN name, select its driver and the .mdb file. The programs should then run as they did in Windows but perhaps a bit slower with: wine Odbc-prog.exe I've tried this out on a clean .wine install and it works with my test programs. Barry Bird

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Re: ODBC Databases: Jet/Access success
by James Mckenzie July 25, 2009

July 25, 2009

>On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Mike >Kaplinskiy<mike.kaplinskiy(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Juan Lang<juan.lang(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hey Barry, >>> >>> this was a handy writeup. Perhaps you could add it to the wiki? >>> Here's a page that you might add it to: >>> http://wiki.winehq.org/NativeOdbc >>> >>> The user guide should probably point to the wiki, but that's a >>> different topic. Thanks! >>> --Juan >>> >>> >>> >> >> Dan/Austin might also add this to winetricks. Jet is already in there >> so this would be a nice addition. > Austin: Can his list be bounced against the Jet40 and MDAC28 installations? James McKenzie >I don't see how. The dlls were copied from windows, not part of a >redistributable downloadable package. > >-- >-Austin > >

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Vacation
by Alexandre Julliard July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Folks, I'll be on vacation next week, so you'll have to do without commits for a while. And of course there won't be a release either, 1.1.27 will be the week after, on August 7. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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