http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134
Summary: endian problem (?) in registry loader Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P1 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.com ReportedBy: whiting@mit.edu
running wine 20021031 with an installed copy of Windows ME, I tried to start MS Word. It complained that it was not installed. I compared the wine system.reg and the registry dump from regedit.exe and found the following difference:
Windows Registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\WINWORD.EXE\shell\edit\command] @=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE" /n" "command"=hex(7):4c,6a,4e,25,21,67,78,73,66,28,4e,67,5d,71,46,60,48,7b,4c,73,\ 57,4f,52,44,46,69,6c,65,73,3e,6c,6c,54,5d,6a,49,7b,6a,66,28,3d,31,26,4c,5b,\ 2d,38,31,2d,5d,20,2f,6e,00,00
~/.wine/system.reg: [Software\CLASSES\Applications\WINWORD.EXE\shell\edit\command] 1036529854 @=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE" /n" "command"=str(7):"LjN%!gxsf(Ng]qF`H{LsWORDFiles>llT]jI{jf(=1&L[-81-] /n\0"
Replacing the "command"= line in ~/.wine/system.reg with the one from the Windows registry fixed the problem. Looking at an ASCII table, I realized that the string was the same byte values, except the byte order was swapped.
Changing the byte order to [Software\CLASSES\Applications\WINWORD.EXE\shell\edit\command] 1036745211 @=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE" /n" "command"=str(7):"jL%Ng!sx(fgNq]`F{HsLOWDRiFel>sll}TIjj{(f1=L&-[18]-/ n\0"
fixed the problem. MS Word started, loaded a file and saved it with no problem. This is probably a general problem with all registry values that load to str(7). I saw it in several other str(7) values in the system.reg file.
Should be easy to fix, but I don't know anything about Wine's architecture, so I don't even know where to begin looking for the function that reads in the Windows registry.
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