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What is --extension in win32.api?
by Francois Gouget Oct. 4, 2005

Oct. 4, 2005

In a number of places in win32.api I see '--extension' is used. For instance for 'advapi32.dll' we have: %long --extension LSA_HANDLE '--extension' is also used for pointer types in other places. However, when I check winapi.pm I see that '--extension' is not used anywhere ($extension is set but never used). So what is it for? Is it obsolete and thus ripe for removal? -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ $live{free} || die "";

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Documentation update
by Molle Bestefich Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Log message: [[[ Fix up winedev-debugger doc to match 0.9. Remove 404s, remove config file references, mention disassemblers that actually installs, etc. ]]] Details: * Remove defunct IDA hyperlinks. * Add new IDA hyperlinks and verbosity. * Add GoVest hyperlink. * Add brief mention of SoftIce (and that it doesn't run under Wine). * Add authors for disassemblers, which should help with locating them should they change ownership. * Add reference to Google's directory of Win32 disassemblers. * Remove references to Wine config file. * Add references to debugging related Wine registry keys. * Consistency: Fold a few lines that were more than 80 characters. * Consistency: Use [. ] for line endings. Both [. ] and [. ] were used before. The document is a difficult read, so spacing of sentences makes good sense. * Fix grammar, missing spaces between words, etc. Please apply, someone :-).

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App db not accepting screen shots....
by Oliver Stieber Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hi, The application DB won't let me upload a screen shot, I get 'connection to host was lost' or 'page contains no data'. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: shellpath: use wine_get_dos_file_name
by Juan Lang Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

> This is going to cause us poor ReactOS guys some trouble as that > kernel32 function neither exists in Windows nor ReactOS. Isn't there a > better solution? This function was already going to cause you trouble, as getenv("HOME") probably won't produce the correct results anyway. Just get rid of the special cases portion of _SHGetDefaultValue, they never apply to ROS. --Juan __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: winecfg: remove .dll extension from DllOverrides
by James Hawkins Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

On 10/3/05, Juan Lang <juan_lang(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > This seems to be a common source of confusion. (It got me, and it's asked > on wine-users periodically.) Do .exe extensions need to be stripped too? > I believe only .dll needs to be stripped. .exe and others like .ocx must remain. -- James Hawkins

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Re: shellpath: use wine_get_dos_file_name
by Thomas Weidenmueller Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Juan Lang wrote: > ChangeLog: use wine_get_dos_file_name rather than relying on > GetFullPathNameW hack. This is going to cause us poor ReactOS guys some trouble as that kernel32 function neither exists in Windows nor ReactOS. Isn't there a better solution? - Thomas

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headless question, and IPC question
by Ken Larson Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

I'm using wine to access a particular proprietary DLL (I don't have the source for it) on Linux. The way I'm doing this is to write an EXE that wraps the DLL, and makes all of the functions available via socket request and response messages. My linux program has access to the functions of the DLL by sending socket messages to the EXE running under wine. 2 questions: 1. My DLL/EXE uses no calls to pop up graphical windows, so theoretically no display is needed. Of course wine needs a display because it does not know that an EXE won't make such calls. Is there a way to run wine with a null or dummy display - so that it is effectively running headless? 2. The sockets trick was the simplest way I could figure out how to do IPC between a linux process and a wine process. However, is there are any better or faster way to do this? As far as I know I can't use winelib because I don't have the source to the DLL. Thanks, Ken Larson

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Documentation volunteer(s) needed
by Alexandre Julliard Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Folks, As most of you probably know (at least those of you who managed to get out of bed in time for my keynote ;-) we are supposed to release 0.9 real soon now. We do have one remaining issue: the documentation needs some major work. Not every bit of it is critical for the release, but we need to fix at least the User's Guide to reflect the recent configuration changes. Would anybody be interested in helping with that? -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Re: Rpm's for Fedora Core 4
by Dieter Komendera Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Yesterday I built rpm's of 20050930 for Fedora Core 4. http://komi.bluezones.org/wine/fc4/20050930/ Please review them! I don't know if they are 'good' enough for offical rpms. But if you think they are, you can upload them to sourceforge. They (and all the othery I built) are based on them from Vincent.

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Paths confusion
by F Lace Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hello Wine Folks, Thanks to google, I learnt about Wine's existence. I havent tried it yet, looking through the website, documentation and source code, I am delighted! I am browsing through some DLL implementation source one by one, but I got stuck at the first one itself(kernel32/files) and got confused with various file path formats. Following are some of the path names I could collect reading through different documentation and I also got a few from my friends who are windows developers. To list my confusion, I have a few questions reading the source: 1. Do UNC paths really start with "UNC\"? I havent seen any, I thought they start with just "\\share\" 2. Does "\\?\" denote a UNC path that refers to the local machine? 3. Wine's RtlDetermineDosPathNameType_U says //./foo is a device path, what does this translate to this path is given to NtCreateFile? 4. Wine's NtCreateFile seems to specially handle only PIPEs and MAILSLOTs. How does it handle the other types that I listed below? (\Device\..., \??\Volume, :{...}, etc 5. How do you determine from the NT path if it is a path to a device? Thanks! /flace C:\Path\To\SomeFile.ext Path\To\A\Relative\File.txt C:\Windows\Absolute\Path.txt \??\C:\Nt\Path.ext \\?\C:\Path\to\a\really\long\file\name.txt \\share\path\to\a\network\shared\file.ext \\.\ <-- what is this for? UNC \Device\KsecDD \??\shadow \??\PIPE\lsarpc \??\PIPE\srvsvc \??\MountPointManager \??\Volume{d73e9554-faa2-11d9-b4c7-806d6172696f}\ \??\IDE#CdRomMATSHITA_DVD-ROM_SR-8177________________NB21____#5&29356cf8&0&0.0.0#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\ :{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA :SummaryInformation:$DATA :Docf_SebiesnrMkudrfcoIaamtykdDa:$DATA

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