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Anyone compiled Borland OWL (Object Windows Library) with winelib ?
by Grzegorz Prokopski Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

Hi ! I am unable to find this information in wine-devel archives, so I decided to ask here. Q1: Have You heard about anyone who compiled Borland OWL (Object Windows Library) based project with winelib ? Yeah - I know it is an old library and Borland C++ 5.02 is the last version released a few years ago and without future updates. Anyway I have a project which IS written in OWL and need to check how hard will it be to make it working under Linux without rewriting it all. I belive I have the sources for complete OWL of course. Q2: With You expirience what would You say to that statment: If my OWL-based program works under Wine it should be convertable to winelib. How true is that statment ? Q3: I have read docs about using winelib and seen that there is MS Visual C++ mentioned many times. Does MS VC++ have some kind of support in winemake or in winelib itself ? Does OWL case differ much from MS VC++ ? Thank You for Your answers. Grzegorz Prokopski

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re: dde problems
by Josh Duncan Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

Eric, thanks for the pointers. I removed the ms versions of the user32, kernel32 dlls. I have attached a log file, containing the last ~100 lines of wine execution. (the command I ran was "wine --debugmsg +dde,+relay --managed ./LOGOS.EXE") am I doing something wrong if wine locks up my computer about half of the time that I try running this app? sometimes I can go back to a virtual console and kill the wine processes(which in turn kills X, annoying but not so bad since xdm kicks in), but often I have to reach for the power button. --Josh On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:45:05AM -0500, wine-devel-request(a)winehq.com wrote: > Send wine-devel mailing list submissions to > wine-devel(a)winehq.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wine-devel-request(a)winehq.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wine-devel-admin(a)winehq.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of wine-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re:problems with dde, I think... (Eric Pouech) > 2. Re: Colour problems with latest DIB fix (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Gouget) > 3. Re:(no subject) (Eric Pouech) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:56:56 +0100 > Subject: Re:problems with dde, I think... > From: "Eric Pouech"<eric.pouech(a)voila.fr> > To: duncan(a)msmd.net > Cc: wine-devel(a)winehq.com > > > I can get the "library" window to show up when running wine, and the initial > > "quick tip" window, but when I click the close button of the tip window wine > > encounters an exception. I believe the exception is in user32.dll, in the > > ddeuninitialize16 function. This is going from my memory of the one time I was > > able to attach to the wine process to catch the exception. > well you have to be sure of that... you can always trace with -debugmsg +dde,+relay and see what gives (and post the 100 lines before the exception is thrown) > > > I attempted copying the kernel32, user32 dll's from a win98 machine into my wine > > dir, but this did not help. > never do that. native kernel, user and gdi DLL won't work under wine. > A+ > > --------------- > Eric Pouech > (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/) > The future will be better tomorrow, > Vice President Dan Quayle > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr > Avec Voila Mail, consultez vos e-mails sur votre mobile Wap. > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:06:35 -0800 > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> > To: Gerard Patel <gerard.patel(a)nerim.net> > CC: wine-devel(a)winehq.com > Subject: Re: Colour problems with latest DIB fix > > Gerard Patel wrote: > > > > At 12:53 PM 29/10/2001 -0800, you wrote: > > > > >> Anyway, the attached patch is displaying the failing picture correctly. > > >> What do you think ? > > > > > > If I apply your patch, then I see that the red and blue are exchanged > > >when I run vnc as: > > > vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 -pixelformat bgr565 > > > > Could you explain a bit more what you are doing ? I would like to > > try the same but I don't see how to do it. > > I guess you don't know about VNC then. Here's a description of VNC. > VNC is a pretty cool open-source application which lets you access a > computer remotely, kind of like X but different :-) It is composed of > two parts, a server and a client. > The command above starts an VNC X server. This X server is not using > any graphics card because it is not actually displaying anything. It > just uses a chunk of memory to store the 'screen'. Because of that you > can use about any pixel representation. In the above I specified that I > wanted a 800x600 screen in 16 bits per pixel with the red, green and > blue components in BGR order. > Once you have this server, you can start the client as 'xvncviewer > :1'. This connects to the above VNC server and creates an 800x600 window > that shows you what is displayed in that X server. The client can be run > on the same computer or on another. Because the client/server protocol > involves exchanging bitmap chunks the client is very simple and can run > on about any platform. So you can access the above VNC server from an > Windows computer if you want. > There is also a VNC server for Windows. And this leads to one of the > most interesting applications of VNC: remotely controlling a Windows > computer. From another Windows computer, from any Unix platform, I > believe there's even a client for PalmOS! > > Anyway, by playing with the -depth and -pixelformat options you can > test Wine as if it were running into all sorts of X servers. > > > > Also, if you use vnc to test, did you consider the possibility that vnc > > could have a bug somewhere ? > > There's always that possibility but the results I get with VNC (based > on XFree 3.3.6) are consistent with those I get from the > neomagic&permedia drivers of XFree 4.1.0. > > > [...] > > I had (of course) a number of problems with your app. > > First on my current computer - a Mandrake 8, with Xfree 4, > > your procedure ran fine until it tried to link the thing and then it > > reported that WinMain was missing. I changed in your code > > 'main' to 'WinMain' and all was well. > > Sorry about that. By default winemaker assumes that applications are > graphical applications. So it created a .spec file with "mode guiexe" > and "init WinMain" instead of "mode cuiexe" and "init main". > > > > I tried then to do the same on my other computer (Suse 6.1 with > > Xfree 3.3 and a hand-compiled glibc 2.1.3). No joy. Configure > > always failed with libwine.so failing to find symbols like dlclose > > and the like. I did not figure out what is happening, I just > > copied the binary from my other box and it worked. > > That's strange. It should be investigated... > > > > As for the results, what I see is 11 lines of 13 blocks of 4 colors : > > black, red, green, blue. I guess that when you speak of red and > > blue exchanged, you mean that in one of these blocks the red > > and blue lines are exchanged, right ? > > Yes. > > > > What is strange is that on both of my computers the display > > of your app is the same with or without my patch. No line > > exchanged that I can see. > > This probably means that you have a 16bpp rgb565 screen. Which seems > normal. It also means that the Dib is a bgr888 Dib which does not exist > in Windows. So something weird is happening. Here are the interesting > kind of lines: > > trace:bitmap:X11DRV_DIB_SetImageBits Dib: depth=24 r=ff0000 g=ff00 b=ff > trace:bitmap:X11DRV_DIB_SetImageBits Bmp: depth=16/16 r=f800 g=7e0 b=1f > > This tells us that the Dib is a 24bpp dib and that it is an RGB dib, > the only kind of 24bit DIB in Windows. What tells us that it's an RGB > DIB is the r,g,b masks: the red color is encoded in the high bits of the > 24bit value: 0xff0000. Then you hace the green, 0xff00, and the blue, > 0xff, hence the rgb888 shorthand. > Similarly the 'Bmp', i.e. an XImage, is a 16bpp rgb image. Here you > will notice that the mask for the green color, 0x7e0, uses 6 bits > instead of just 5. This gives you the rgb565 denomination. > Finally we are in SetImage so we are converting the Dib into a Bmp, > i.e. from rgb888 to rgb565 so we will call Convert_888_to_565_asis > (since both are rgb). > Now I suspect that with your application the Dib masks don't look > like the above. > > Actually I have a buffer overflow patch to send for the new DIB code. > I don't think it's related but then, who knows. I will try to send it > tomorrow morning. > > > > > As for The Sims, if you can also check the -debugmsg +bitmap output > > >and make sure it's coherent. > > > > I don't have The Sims... I use a little freeware app that is not available > > from the internet anymore, unfortunately :-/. > > Do you think you could send this freeware app to me? Would I be able > to run it without too much trouble? > > > -- > François Gouget > fgouget(a)codeweavers.com > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:09:05 +0100 > Subject: Re:(no subject) > From: "Eric Pouech"<eric.pouech(a)voila.fr> > To: ughbash(a)yahoo.com > Cc: wine-devel(a)winehq.com > > > I had an idea for using poll or select (rather than > > calculating expected play time and using a timeout) in > > audio.c The idea is to have a thread that sits on a > > select and dispatches a synthetic wine event (ie. > > we'd make up a WM_DSP_READY event) when the select > > returns. > well, from a generic point of view this is something to be done > however, I don't see where you'd like to dispatch the event to ? > the playback thread in this case would have to wait on two different things: > - the /dev/dsp fd (when the queue becomes non full) > - the external events (play/pause/stop/quit) > so you have to decide whether you use unix or Windows sync mechanisms here. unix would be more effective, but a bit harder to do. Windows would be nice (you just need to call the wine server request to create from a unix fd into a windows handle and wait on it. > > A+ > --------------- > Eric Pouech > (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/) > The future will be better tomorrow, > Vice President Dan Quayle > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr > Avec Voila Mail, consultez vos e-mails sur votre mobile Wap. > > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > wine-devel mailing list - wine-devel(a)winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-devel > > > End of wine-devel Digest

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Re: Colour problems with latest DIB fix
by Gerard Patel Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

At 12:53 PM 29/10/2001 -0800, you wrote: >> Anyway, the attached patch is displaying the failing picture correctly. >> What do you think ? > > If I apply your patch, then I see that the red and blue are exchanged >when I run vnc as: > vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 -pixelformat bgr565 Could you explain a bit more what you are doing ? I would like to try the same but I don't see how to do it. Also, if you use vnc to test, did you consider the possibility that vnc could have a bug somewhere ? > Without the patch everything is fine. I also checked the formula and >I see nothing wrong with it (as long as you are on a little endian >computer, but you don't have a big endian x86, do you? ;-). Never heard that Amd is doing that :-) > So the question is why doesn't it work on your system. Can you run >The Sims (I assume it's with that the problem happens) with a +bitmap >trace? Then look for cases where either the bmp or the dib has >"depth=24". Then check the masks to see if they make sense. For example, >do they match what you know of your X server. You may also put a trace >in Convert_888_to_565_reverse and check that it is invoked at the right >time. Do they have a bgr888 dib (unsupported in windows AFAIK, but, >except for 1 or 2 shortcuts, supported in Wine)? Maybe it is the DIB >masks that are wrong. That's a bit involved for this evening :-/ > Also it would be great if you could run my test application and check >whether it displays fine. The line to watch for is the sixth line >(rgb888 dib to 565 rgb/bgr bmp and back). I had (of course) a number of problems with your app. First on my current computer - a Mandrake 8, with Xfree 4, your procedure ran fine until it tried to link the thing and then it reported that WinMain was missing. I changed in your code 'main' to 'WinMain' and all was well. I tried then to do the same on my other computer (Suse 6.1 with Xfree 3.3 and a hand-compiled glibc 2.1.3). No joy. Configure always failed with libwine.so failing to find symbols like dlclose and the like. I did not figure out what is happening, I just copied the binary from my other box and it worked. As for the results, what I see is 11 lines of 13 blocks of 4 colors : black, red, green, blue. I guess that when you speak of red and blue exchanged, you mean that in one of these blocks the red and blue lines are exchanged, right ? What is strange is that on both of my computers the display of your app is the same with or without my patch. No line exchanged that I can see. > As for The Sims, if you can also check the -debugmsg +bitmap output >and make sure it's coherent. I don't have The Sims... I use a little freeware app that is not available from the internet anymore, unfortunately :-/. And again, that's a bit complex for today. I'll try later. Gerard

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Re:problems with dde, I think...
by Eric Pouech Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

> I can get the "library" window to show up when running wine, and the initial > "quick tip" window, but when I click the close button of the tip window wine > encounters an exception. I believe the exception is in user32.dll, in the > ddeuninitialize16 function. This is going from my memory of the one time I was > able to attach to the wine process to catch the exception. well you have to be sure of that... you can always trace with -debugmsg +dde,+relay and see what gives (and post the 100 lines before the exception is thrown) > I attempted copying the kernel32, user32 dll's from a win98 machine into my wine > dir, but this did not help. never do that. native kernel, user and gdi DLL won't work under wine. A+ --------------- Eric Pouech (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/) The future will be better tomorrow, Vice President Dan Quayle ____________________________________________________________ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr Avec Voila Mail, consultez vos e-mails sur votre mobile Wap.

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problems with dde, I think...
by Josh Duncan Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

Hi all, I'm a little new to the list, so please be forgiving if I'm asking old questions. I've tried to do some research on the net and list archives to see if my questions have been answered before. I'm trying to run a program called Logos, which is a reference system for Biblical texts and other various study materials. It has a two-(independent)-windowed type interface, with a list of reference materials in one window("library"), and a workspace-type window containing subwindows with the texts of individual books. I can get the "library" window to show up when running wine, and the initial "quick tip" window, but when I click the close button of the tip window wine encounters an exception. I believe the exception is in user32.dll, in the ddeuninitialize16 function. This is going from my memory of the one time I was able to attach to the wine process to catch the exception. I attempted copying the kernel32, user32 dll's from a win98 machine into my wine dir, but this did not help. after doing this, I could not run winedbg either, as it exits giving me the following error: err:win32:PE_fixup_imports No implementation for kernel32.dll.0(wine_get_unix_file_name) imported from winedbg, setting to 0xdeadbeef This error occurs even after removing the two dlls. If anyone can give me advice about how to fix this, I'll try to post up the winedbg results of running the program(backtrace, et al) I know that some people have mentioned dde being broken between apps, I don't know if this is the case for this app, because when I was able to do a winedbg "walk process" it only listed one w-process, with 4 w-threads running. I have attached my wine config file, any advice would be greatly appreciated. (Also, if this email should have gone to the wine-users list, please let me know) I'm using the wine-20011029.i386.rpm from LinuxEasy, linked off of the winehq.org download page. sincerely, Josh Duncan not that it matters, but a pic of the two windows I can produce are at http://www.msmd.net/logos.jpg I'd try and show a pic of the other window, but the system gets so unstable that it can hard-lockup the machine, I think this is a cpu-spinning-in-signal handler problem but I couldn't get you a log right now to prove it.

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Re: problem with virtualdub.
by Roger Fujii Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

Nerijus Baliunas wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:04:51 +0000 Gerard Patel <gerard.patel(a)nerim.net> wrote: > > GP> The web site says that this executable is compressed with a tool called UPX. This > GP> seems to be the reason for the problem, as the original program is compiled with > GP> Ms VC++ - not a very exotic tool. > You can unpack it with upx, even under Linux - http://upx.sourceforge.net/. well, this indeed seems to be part of the problem. Decompressing it makes it go further, but still dies. > GP> I tried a hack for that and virtualdub got further; however, I see that it is > GP> trying to load avicap32.dll and this is not going to work - even under Linux > I remember I was able to start Virtual Dub with wine (maybe a year ago), but don't > remember if it worked. BTW, just yesterday TAKESHIMA Hidenori added stub for avicap32. really? Doesn't seem to be in cvs yet... Looks like it's getting upset about not finding StdChannelMask, but this is just a guess. -r

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(no subject)
by Simon Britnell Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

I had an idea for using poll or select (rather than calculating expected play time and using a timeout) in audio.c The idea is to have a thread that sits on a select and dispatches a synthetic wine event (ie. we'd make up a WM_DSP_READY event) when the select returns. wodPlayer could then do an infinite wait and the select could be turned on or off when starting and ending playing. >From my relatively naive view a generic mechanism like this (ie. one that converts async IO selects into wine events) would be a good feature to have from a performance and code tidiness point of view. One caveat is that we'd need to ensure nothing evil happened if somebody sent the synthetic event from somewhere other than the select waiter. Comments? Am I missing something? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: problem with virtualdub.
by Gerard Patel Oct. 30, 2001

Oct. 30, 2001

At 05:17 PM 26/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >there seems to be a funky problem with virtualdub >(http://virutaldub.sourceforge.net) Get differing >results between solaris and linux, but both seems to >fail before the app comes up. > >Under solaris, it seems like something is screwed up >with the loader - when it tries to load the binary, >it dies in dump_exports because what's at pe_exports >is just garbage. Not sure where it's dying under >linux (probably the same place) - don't have a devel >environment there (yet). > >Nothing unusual seems to happen before it gets there >(both solaris/linux binaries run sol.exe and other stuff just fine). >My suspicion is that the IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_EXPORT data isn't pointing to what >wine thinks is there, but would like someone who knows more >about the loader to say something.... > >can anyone help shed more light onto this? > >-r > Yes, I have looked at this application. It loads fine under Windows - however, both dependancy walker and the Nt quick viewer are not happy with it (one displays that there is a format error in the exe, the other loops and finally crashes) The web site says that this executable is compressed with a tool called UPX. This seems to be the reason for the problem, as the original program is compiled with Ms VC++ - not a very exotic tool. I think that a fix could be to detect a corrupted header in dump_exports and to not try to display anything if numberoffunctions is not coherent with the export section size. I tried a hack for that and virtualdub got further; however, I see that it is trying to load avicap32.dll and this is not going to work - even under Linux ;:-) Gerard

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Re: Colour problems with latest DIB fix
by Gerard Patel Oct. 29, 2001

Oct. 29, 2001

At 02:18 PM 21/10/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >Johan Gill wrote: >> >> Since the big DIB fix, red and blue are exchanged in some cases, >> for example in the install program for The Sims. >> >> This happens in both depth 16 and depth 24. > > Could you give me some more information about your X server (version, >driver)? I see a very similar problem with my X server : 4.03 that comes with my Mandrake 8, graphic card is a Sis 6326. I had tested your patch before it was committed BTW but I failed to notice the problem :-/ Anyway, the attached patch is displaying the failing picture correctly. What do you think ? Gerard

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struct thread in server/thread.h
by Gerald Pfeifer Oct. 29, 2001

Oct. 29, 2001

In server/thread.h we have a definition of struct thread. Unfortunately, though, this clashes with struct thread as defined in /usr/include/sys/thread.h on FreeBSD 5.x and probably other systems (Solaris) as well. How should this be addressed? Would any of you mind fixing this? (If it's okay to just rename struct thread to struct winethread, I'm volunteering to handle that, else it'd be great could one of the experts have a look!) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer(a)dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

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