http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24362
Summary: Game-of-the-day from gamehouse.com fails to install Product: Wine Version: 1.3.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
My wife wanted to try the current download from http://www.gamehouse.com/free-games which turns out to be 6b1e25f7b5337b395d5f21c5bce2c795bd6ce654 GameHouse-Installer_amg-farmfrenzy3iceage_gamehouse_.exe
In Wine, it exits silently. It's a rar sfx, so you can extract the files with rar. Looks like the sfx runs bin/bstrapInstall.exe. +relay shows that this does something like regsvr32 /s .\bin\InstallerDlg.dll bin\gameinstaller.exe installerMain.clf Doing this by hand also exits silently. +relay shows
0024:Call ntdll.strlen(001cfc98 "attempt to call global `InstallerUI' (a nil value)") ret=1000ad86
which looks a bit suspicious.
It's all very LUA-y and COM-y, too.