February 2026 - Wine-GitLab

[PATCH v5 0/1] MR10036: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons.
by Tim Clem (＠tclem) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

Sidesteps an issue cause by some apps having an inaccurate size for the resource in the GRPICONDIR size ; CreateIconFromResourceEx handles that case, but the old CGImage path would fault if the GRPICONDIR size was too large. --- It seems that some apps have different sizes in the GRPICONDIR and the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DATA_ENTRY. winemenubuilder has had a workaround for this since 2014 - see c205e6800a63a5df9960d8484a2e67687d53bc50. The size difference is great enough in some situations (e.g. Brotato) that the attempt read the resource may fault, but that's only because we passed the PNG data over to the Unix side of winemac.drv directly, and used CG methods to deal with it, which will attempt to copy in the entire array of bytes. If we use CreateIconFromResourceEx instead, for all cases (it can handle pngs), we do not fault, since that method does not attempt to copy the entire resource size. The original mailing list discussion about the winemenubuilder patch is [here](https://marc.info/?l=wine-patches&m=140903555724711&w=2). Huge thanks to @bshanks for spotting that patch. This has apparently always been faulting for some apps, but only became an issue after !10032. The subsequent syscall fault unwinds out of the pthread_once that !10032 added, so future threads that wind up there will hang. -- v5: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10036

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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MR10035: kernelbase: Don't write *result on async NtWriteFile returns. - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10035

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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MR10014: ntdll, mountmgr.sys: Report free space for "important" data on macOS. - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10014

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[PATCH v4 0/1] MR10036: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons.
by Tim Clem (＠tclem) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

Sidesteps an issue cause by some apps having an inaccurate size for the resource in the GRPICONDIR size ; CreateIconFromResourceEx handles that case, but the old CGImage path would fault if the GRPICONDIR size was too large. --- It seems that some apps have different sizes in the GRPICONDIR and the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DATA_ENTRY. winemenubuilder has had a workaround for this since 2014 - see c205e6800a63a5df9960d8484a2e67687d53bc50. The size difference is great enough in some situations (e.g. Brotato) that the attempt read the resource may fault, but that's only because we passed the PNG data over to the Unix side of winemac.drv directly, and used CG methods to deal with it, which will attempt to copy in the entire array of bytes. If we use CreateIconFromResourceEx instead, for all cases (it can handle pngs), we do not fault, since that method does not attempt to copy the entire resource size. The original mailing list discussion about the winemenubuilder patch is [here](https://marc.info/?l=wine-patches&m=140903555724711&w=2). Huge thanks to @bshanks for spotting that patch. This has apparently always been faulting for some apps, but only became an issue after !10032. The subsequent syscall fault unwinds out of the pthread_once that !10032 added, so future threads that wind up there will hang. -- v4: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10036

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[PATCH v3 0/1] MR10036: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons.
by Tim Clem (＠tclem) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

Sidesteps an issue cause by some apps having an inaccurate size for the resource in the GRPICONDIR size ; CreateIconFromResourceEx handles that case, but the old CGImage path would fault if the GRPICONDIR size was too large. --- It seems that some apps have different sizes in the GRPICONDIR and the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DATA_ENTRY. winemenubuilder has had a workaround for this since 2014 - see c205e6800a63a5df9960d8484a2e67687d53bc50. The size difference is great enough in some situations (e.g. Brotato) that the attempt read the resource may fault, but that's only because we passed the PNG data over to the Unix side of winemac.drv directly, and used CG methods to deal with it, which will attempt to copy in the entire array of bytes. If we use CreateIconFromResourceEx instead, for all cases (it can handle pngs), we do not fault, since that method does not attempt to copy the entire resource size. The original mailing list discussion about the winemenubuilder patch is [here](https://marc.info/?l=wine-patches&m=140903555724711&w=2). Huge thanks to @bshanks for spotting that patch. This has apparently always been faulting for some apps, but only became an issue after !10032. The subsequent syscall fault unwinds out of the pthread_once that !10032 added, so future threads that wind up there will hang. -- v3: winemac.drv: Unconditionally use CreateIconFromResourceEx for app icons. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10036

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[PATCH v2 0/1] MR10036: winemac.drv: Attempt to correct the size of icon resources.
by Tim Clem (＠tclem) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

It seems that some apps have different sizes in the GRPICONDIR and the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DATA_ENTRY. winemenubuilder has had the same workaround since 2014 - see c205e6800a63a5df9960d8484a2e67687d53bc50. --- The size difference is great enough in some situations (e.g. Brotato) that the attempt read the resource may fault. The original mailing list discussion about the winemenubuilder patch is [here](https://marc.info/?l=wine-patches&m=140903555724711&w=2). Huge thanks to @bshanks for spotting that patch. This has apparently always been faulting for some apps, but only became an issue after !10032. The subsequent syscall fault unwinds out of the pthread_once that !10032 added, so future threads that wind up there will hang. -- v2: winemac.drv: Attempt to correct the size of icon resources. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10036

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[PATCH 0/1] MR10036: winemac.drv: Attempt to correct the size of icon resources.
by Tim Clem (＠tclem) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

It seems that some apps have different sizes in the GRPICONDIR and the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DATA_ENTRY. winemenubuilder has had the same workaround since 2014 - see c205e6800a63a5df9960d8484a2e67687d53bc50. --- The size difference is great enough in some situations (e.g. Brotato) that the attempt read the resource may fault. The original mailing list discussion about the winemenubuilder patch is [here](https://marc.info/?l=wine-patches&m=140903555724711&w=2). Huge thanks to @bshanks for spotting that patch. This has apparently always been faulting for some apps, but only became an issue after !10032. The subsequent syscall fault unwinds out of the pthread_once that !10032 added, so future threads that wind up there will hang. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10036

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Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] MR9977: wineandroid: Fix build issues and early runtime regressions on modern Android toolchains
by Twaik Yont (＠twaik) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

> Please explain in more details what's happening here. Probably you meant the reason it grows to 2GB. I believe it is caused by `-Wl,-Ttext=0x7d400000` (introduced in cbd2af9213fb76e2ed2e7d7a9151100f45f0679c). This option forces the `.text` segment to be placed at a high virtual address. When combined with `-Wl,--no-rosegment` (which is implicitly passed for older Android SDK levels), the linker changes how it groups sections into `PT_LOAD` segments. To preserve the required relation between virtual addresses and file offsets inside a `PT_LOAD` segment, the linker ends up assigning a very large file offset (`0x7d400000`) to the segment containing `.text`. This creates a huge sparse gap in the output file, making its apparent size close to 2GB. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9977#note_128885

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[PATCH 0/1] MR9874: Draft: wineandroid.drv: experimental bring-up fixes for Android 7.1.x (discussion starter)
by Twaik Yont (＠twaik) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

#### Note on authorship and language This text was translated into English and structured with the assistance of ChatGPT. The author is not a native English speaker and may struggle with written technical English; any wording issues are unintentional. #### Description This merge request is an experimental attempt to bring wineandroid.drv back to a minimally functional state on Android 7.1.x. It is primarily intended as a discussion starter rather than a final or polished solution. The current Android support appears to have bit-rotted over time, likely due to a combination of internal contract changes in Wine, toolchain and NDK evolution, and the absence of continuous Android testing. The changes proposed here aim to re-establish a working baseline and make the regressions more concrete and easier to reason about. At the moment, all changes are provided as a single patch. This is intentional: until at least one of the proposed changes is confirmed as a valid or acceptable fix, the patchset is kept consolidated to simplify iteration. Once individual changes are reviewed or agreed upon, the history can be rewritten (via force-push) to split them into logical, self-contained commits. #### Test environment and context All testing so far was performed on Android 7.1.2 x86 images from the Android-x86 project. The primary target is i386 Wine running on x86 Android userspace. Because no up-to-date official Android build scripts were available, Wine was built using Termux as an unsupported but convenient environment for rapid testing. The Java part (WineActivity and related glue code) was built with `sharedUserId = com.termux` purely for convenience (filesystem access and faster prototyping). **Termux is explicitly not considered a supported environment and is mentioned only to provide context for the testing setup.** The build uses Android NDK r29. Since the last known functional Android Wine builds, the NDK and linker behavior have changed multiple times, including symbol visibility and relocation handling. These changes appear to have directly affected several failure modes described below. There is also a known issue with wine-preloader producing excessively large binaries under recent toolchains; a workaround exists but is not included here and is mentioned only as additional context. #### Scope of changes This merge request currently modifies only Android-specific code: - `wineandroid.drv` (native code and Java glue, including WineActivity) - android-only paths in `dlls/ntdll/unix/loader.c` No non-Android platforms are affected. #### Summary of resolved issues 1. `virtual_alloc_first_teb` failure Wine frequently failed early during startup with: ``` err:virtual:virtual_alloc_first_teb wine: failed to map the shared user data: c0000018 ``` This failure was not observed on older Wine versions. It appears to be related to JNI interaction occurring too early during initialization, interfering with allocation of the shared user data region at the required fixed address. This was resolved by moving the call to `virtual_init()` earlier in `wine_init_jni()`, before JNI-related activity begins. 2. Missing exported JNI symbols The symbols `java_vm`, `java_object`, and `java_gdt_sel` were no longer visible when accessed via `dlopen`/`dlsym`. This appears to be a consequence of newer toolchain and linker behavior. The issue was resolved by explicitly exporting these symbols using `DECLSPEC_EXPORT`. 3. Desktop thread assertion during startup Wine aborted with the following assertion: ``` dlls/wineandroid.drv/window.c:519: int wait_events(int): assertion "GetCurrentThreadId() == desktop_tid" failed ``` The failure happens because `pCreateDesktop()` is now invoked before `pCreateWindow()`, while the existing code expected `desktop_tid` to be set during `pCreateWindow()`. As a result, the event waiting path may execute before `desktop_tid` is initialized. This was addressed by moving `init_event_queue()` and `start_android_device()` from `pCreateWindow()` into `pCreateDesktop()`, ensuring the event queue and device startup occur before `wait_events()` is used. 4. Recursive desktop recreation The change described above introduced a new problem: `create_desktop_window()` could be triggered repeatedly. Each Java-side content window creation/layout initialization caused additional resolution/configuration change notifications, which in turn could cause repeated desktop window recreation. This was mitigated by changing the Java/native glue so that when a window/view is being created, the code explicitly checks whether the target is the desktop window and passes this information to Java as a flag. This avoids triggering repeated content-window initialization paths during desktop recreation. 5. WineAndroid device path change Opening the device using `\\.\WineAndroid` no longer works. Switching to `\Device\WineAndroid` resolved the issue. The fix itself is simple but required for basic functionality. 6. Rendering stalls and USER lock assertion Rendering occasionally stalled or crashed with: ``` err:system:user_check_not_lock BUG: holding USER lock ``` Adding TRACE statements often caused the issue to disappear, making it difficult to debug and reproduce reliably. After extensive experimentation, it was discovered that inserting a full memory barrier: ``` __sync_synchronize(); ``` at a specific point makes the issue reliably disappear in the tested setup. This suggests a race or memory visibility/ordering problem. At this time it is unclear whether the root cause is an internal behavioral change in Wine, NDK toolchain/codegen changes, or some other interaction specific to the Android 7.1.x environment. The current change should be treated as a workaround and a starting point for further investigation rather than a definitive fix. #### Remaining issues - Window focus handling is partially broken: windows receive focus on click, but are not always raised to the front. - Despite the available desktop area being larger (e.g. 1024x696), Wine consistently reports a display resolution of 800x600. #### Limitations Wine on Android stopped functioning entirely starting with Android 8. As a result, all testing so far has been limited to Android 7.1.x. No claims are made about behavior on newer Android versions. #### Out of scope This merge request intentionally does not attempt to: - redesign IPC mechanisms - introduce new Android integration models - address Android 8+ compatibility The sole goal is to re-establish a minimally working baseline on Android 7.1.x and enable informed discussion about what regressed and how to proceed. **This is my first contribution to Wine, and I am aware that some parts of this analysis or implementation may be flawed. I would be grateful for any review comments or suggestions.** -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9874

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[PATCH 0/1] MR10033: winex11.drv: Fix x11drv_egl_surface_swap() swap for the case of absent current context.
by Paul Gofman (＠gofman) Feb. 5, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10033

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