[Bug 51081] New: wine fails to run any program with emulate a virtual desktop is enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51081

Bug ID: 51081
           Summary: wine fails to run any program with emulate a virtual
                    desktop is enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to
                    initialize, aborting
           Product: Wine
           Version: 6.7
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

using winehq-devel 6.7 on Debian bullseye.

Enabling the emulate a virtual desktop checkbox with winecfg results in every
program executed after to fail to start with
"00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting". Wine is working just fine when the virtual desktop is not enabled (,
but some programs do not run without virtual desktop emulation.)
This happens with any "wine myprogram.exe", and with programs included in wine
such as "winecfg".

full log reproduced below:

~> winecfg

0060:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
00d8:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
0034:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
00d0:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete

00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Initializing dlls for
L"C:\windows\syswow64\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005

I would gladly do more tests or provide more insightful logs if instructed to
do so. Thanks!