September 2024 - Wine-Devel

Gitlab News
by Alexandre Julliard Sept. 15, 2025

Sept. 15, 2025

Folks, As you may have noticed, now that the ARM64 support is done (just kidding), I've picked up the work on the Gitlab migration: 1. The Wiki has been moved to Gitlab, it's now at [1]. Existing URLs to the previous Wiki are redirected to the appropriate page. There are also separate Wikis for appdb, vkd3d and wine-staging, under their respective project pages. As part of the migration I've done some minor edits, but most of the Wiki is badly out-of-date, and could use some love. Help is welcome! Check the Writers page [2] for details on how to contribute. 2. We are now hosting the Mono project on the WineHQ Gitlab [3]. Please join me in welcoming the Mono developers to our community! 3. We have new hardware for the Gitlab server, which is now noticeably faster. Thanks to Jeremy Newman for setting this up! This also made it possible to enable robots.txt again so that our content is indexed. The next step will be to install new hardware for the Gitlab runners to offer more CI bandwidth. 4. The Gitlab issue tracker is currently disabled because it was attracting too much spam. I'm going to re-enable it, first for use by Mono, and then ultimately also for Wine itself. To fight the spam I'm planning to add an explicit user verification step, modelled along the procedure used by Freedesktop.org [4]. 5. As part of the new sign-up process, I think it would be a good idea to have an explicit Code of Conduct to spell out our expectations. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I propose that we adopt the Contributor Covenant [5] that many other projects (including Mono) are already using. Thoughts? Questions? Comments? [1]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis [2]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Writers [3]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono [4]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/wikis/home [5]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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ntdll WRITECOPY dropped from staging
by Fabian Maurer Sept. 28, 2024

Sept. 28, 2024

Hello, I noticed that the ntdll WRITECOPY changes got mostly dropped from staging in commit https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/commit/ 16dce521242b3f4a52cd2c8799ce6fe464fac83c > The current state even after multiple iterations, the whole > WRITECOPY implemenet needs differently. Upstream will need to > do this. As I understand it, the implementation marks WRITECOPY pages as read-only on the unix side, handling the access violation and marking it as read-write afterwards. (Correct me if I'm wrong) What is wrong with the underlying concept, how should it be implemented properly? Regards, Fabian Maurer

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Carry flag state after a system function call
by robert.ayrapetyan＠gmail.com Sept. 25, 2024

Sept. 25, 2024

Hello, some legacy applications depend on the carry flag state after calling system functions. I've noticed that certain apps work correctly when using Wine installed from packages, but fail when Wine is built from sources. After investigating, I found that Wine from Debian packages is compiled with certain flags that stabilize ESP at the end of system function calls (e.g., sub ESP, 0x10), which, as a side effect, clears the carry flag, making the application happy. I tried using fno-omit-frame-pointer, but it generates lea instructions, which don't impact the carry flag. Has anyone else encountered same behavior? How frequently do older applications rely on the carry flag after system function calls? Also, which specific flags are used to compile the Wine version available in Debian packages?

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Gitlab forks limit issue
by robert.ayrapetyan＠gmail.com Sept. 24, 2024

Sept. 24, 2024

Hello, could you please let me know who I should contact to increase the quotas for my account (rayrapetyan) on https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine? I'm currently unable to fork Wine from https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/forks/new due to the following error: "Limit reached. You cannot create projects in your personal namespace. Contact your GitLab administrator." Also, would you consider accepting a merge request that modifies the GetDriveTypeA\W function to prioritize the mount manager? Let me know if this was discussed somewhere already.

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Wine staging 9.18 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Sept. 21, 2024

Sept. 21, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.18 (361 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest * ntdll-WRITECOPY Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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Staging WRITECOPY fixes
by DodoGTA GT Sept. 20, 2024

Sept. 20, 2024

Hello, I found a few issues with the WRITECOPY patch after wine-staging commit ae46f56f2cf20585387ff61cb7b36fd5f3d84837 which I managed to pretty much fix Patch 0003 is a replacement for the previous 0003 patch (apparently very early signal handling is still needed for some Unix-side ntdll functions); the added early argument checks could be replaced with NtCurrentTeb() instead (this would lead to 2 identical signal_init_process() calls though which may look weird) Patch 0004 updates the previous 0004 patch by removing a forgotten i386 compile-time check (which didn't make sense after that wine-staging commit) Patch 0005 is updated to fix conflicts because of the patch 0004 update (so it can be ignored for a manual rebase) Patch 0010 enables the WRITECOPY stuff by default (this is effectively a replacement for patches 0010 and 0011 without their hacky logic which really only works for Chromium-based applications); if this patch addition is too radical, then at least patches 0010 and 0011 should definitely be removed (hopefully there won't be another patch race anytime soon) Please note that patch 0003 also adds an extra ntdll-Syscall_Emulation dependency to fix a bad interaction with that patchset (also I should've sent this email at least a day earlier but hopefully some of these patches can get pushed) Thanks

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[PATCH] Correction for Bug 52627 - Wishlist: add ohm symbol (greek capital Omega) to wine tahoma font
by MATHEUS VENTURINI BORTOLUZZI Sept. 20, 2024

Sept. 20, 2024

Good afternoon, I've made a patch to fix the Ohm sign not appearing in LTSpice. I followed what was written in the discussion of Bug 52627 <https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52627> - I copied the glyph for "OHM SIGN" and pasted it for "GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA" using FontForge. Since this is my first contribution to anything ever, I would greatly appreciate if someone could test this patch... Thank you in advance Matheus

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Wine staging 9.17 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Sept. 6, 2024

Sept. 6, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.17 (354 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * cmd: Support for launching programs based on file association. * cmd: Changed errorlevel type to DWORD. * winemapi: Directly use xdg-email if available, enabling file attachments. Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest * odbc32-fixes Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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