[Bug 21539] New: Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

Summary: Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not
                    work.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.37
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://srcds.com
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: kernel32
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

SRCDS ( Source Dedicated Server ) is designed to run both in GUI and CLI modes.

However, when trying to run the server in pure console without X and using
"bare streams" as described here (
http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/cui-programs ) I still receive the
error:

DISPLAY='' WINEDEBUG=+console wine srcds.exe -console ...
trace:console:AllocConsole ()
err:curses:WCCURSES_InitBackend (n)curses was not found. 
err:wineconsole:WINECON_Init failed to init.

This is probably due to srcds running in "hybrid" mode where it is marked as a
GUI application, but uses AllocConsole to create a console hence resulting in a
new console creation, which currently fails.

As a workaround I stubbed AllocConsole and only returned TRUE. This allows the
application to start and reach a point where it tries to read the console and
where it then fails due to wine not being able to read from the console.

Could you add an option for true "bare streams" and so that input would also
work?

ps: I know that there is a linux version of SRCDS but there are no linux
binaries for the server I am trying to run. This bug forces a lot of server
hosters run X on their servers to be able to run SRCDS in wine. The server is
free to download and use.

[Bug 21539] Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

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[Bug 21539] Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

--- Comment #1 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2010-02-01 08:29:14 ---
> err:curses:WCCURSES_InitBackend (n)curses was not found.

That's your problem. Your Wine is compiled without (n)curses support,
or (n)curses library is not installed.

[Bug 21539] Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

--- Comment #2 from Python1320   2010-02-04 04:57:09 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> > err:curses:WCCURSES_InitBackend (n)curses was not found.
>
> That's your problem. Your Wine is compiled without (n)curses support,
> or (n)curses library is not installed.

No,

I am trying to run the console application in "bare streams" mode like
described in the wiki and like I said above. This mode doesn't require
(n)curses for output. I don't know about input though so I am asking, do I
really need curses to be able to send a basic input to the console application
and if so, why? Also, I've got no idea how I could make curses send out just
"bare text" without any fancy color codes and such and this is very much needed
for what I am trying to achieve.

I've dug dlls/kernel32/console.c's code and there is code to attach
input/output to the tty, but unfortunately I can't make it work. This feature
would be very VERY needed for redirecting input/output of the server and making
it run like a good daemon.

[Bug 21539] Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

--- Comment #3 from Alexandre Julliard   2010-02-04 05:55:57 ---
What you want is a console backend that uses standard stdio instead of ncurses.
That's certainly feasible, but it's not implemented at the moment, and not
entirely trivial to do. Patches are of course welcome.

[Bug 21539] Using "Bare Streams" console mode with SRCDS does not work.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21539

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--- Comment #4 from Eric Pouech  2012-02-10 05:38:15 CST ---
actually, under windows, when a program calls allocconsole, a new console is
allocated (and it doesn't try to inherit the parent's console)
what you're asking for is specifically to inherit the unix console, which only
works when spawning a CUI program from this console (and this isn't supposed to
go any further)
the root issue IMO here is rather that wineconsole doesn't fall back to the
user backend when the (n)curses fails
I'll try to fix that

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