https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48023
--- Comment #30 from Louis Lenders xerox.xerox2000x@gmail.com --- For anyone who also runs into this "license has expired" blocking window: Somehow I managed to solve this by doing things found on the internet.
- Removed a few regkeys: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31725192/visual-studio-2015-prerelease-s...
(I don't know if this really needed)
- Make sure I was signed out of my account
- Start the installer again (vs_community) and choose the option "repair"
(all this is done with native msxml6)
devenv.exe now works rather stable (also used native concrt140) , compiled simple project. I encountered another fatal Failfastexception two times, which seemed related to UI issues, so for now I run with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 which seems to make it more stable for me (again, not 100% sure about this, needs more testing)
All this is done while I'm not signed in. I'll try sign in and see how things go then.
About this bugreport: It now contains lot of info. Guess we need to split out seperate issues.
The issue "Visual Studio not starting" basically only needs 3 patches
1. RegLoadAppKey patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=65561&action=diff Attempt
An attempt was done by Santino Mazzo https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/820 but never made it upstream.
2. Patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=74525&action=diff Nicolai said it looked ok, so hopefully Lorenzo: you might wanna try to get this upstream?
3. Pending patch on the list https://www.winehq.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/wine-gitlab@winehq.org/threa...
This patch is linked to bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54609
All the other patches are for actually working with the program so guess we should track these issues in new bugreports, once the above issues are solved