[Bug 5174] New: macom2.dll does not work with wine dcom

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5174

Summary: macom2.dll does not work with wine dcom
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.12.
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www-user.zmt.uni-
                    bremen.de/~ulf/macom2_winebug.zip
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-ole
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

MaCom2.dll is a library providing functions for building ecological forest
models developed by H. Hildenbrandt and U. Berger at the Centre for Tropical
Marine Ecology in Bremen, Germany. MaCom2 is not open source at the moment but
is freely available on request from the authors.

Library functions are called from a user-supplied script (using, e.g., Python)
and DCOM. At the moment, running under wine is possible only with Microsoft's
dcom98.

Here is what I do to install it:

- install python2.4.3 (needs Microsoft's msiexec) + pywin32
- register the dll (gdiplus.dll has to be available when doing this)

regsvr32 MaCom2.dll

- call the script, e.g.

wine /home/ulf/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Python24/pythonw.exe
SimpleForest_3species.py

The program does not start correctly:

[...]
 warn:ole:ITypeComp_fnBind did not find member with name L"Init", flags 0x2!
 warn:ole:ITypeComp_fnBind did not find member with name L"Init", flags 0x4!
 warn:ole:ITypeComp_fnBind did not find member with name L"Init", flags 0x8!
 err:ole:ITypeInfo_fnInvoke did not find member id 1, flags 0x2!
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "SimpleForest_3species.py", line 8, in ?
     m.Init(w=110, h=110, scale=3)
 TypeError: Init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'w'
 fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects

The full log from a call with WINEDEBUG=warn+all is found together with
MaCom2.dll and an example script at the URL given above.

When installing dcom98 as described in

http://wiki.winehq.org/NativeDcom?highlight=%28dcom%29