[Bug 46879] New: PowerWold simulator versions 17-> continue to crash

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46879

Bug ID: 46879
           Summary: PowerWold simulator versions 17-> continue to crash
           Product: Wine
           Version: 4.0
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Created attachment 63945
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63945
Log as obtained in the shell

For many years I have tried to use Powerworld simulator (pwrworld.com) with
Wine.

Old versions used to run (if I recall, version 15 worked with wine 1.xx and
Linux), but at least since version 17 (current version is 20) it stopped
working. I have tried many versions of wine, both in Linux and now in Mac OS
and the program always fail, just when starting.

I imagine it can be due to some dll, possibly imported from the development
tools used by the software makers, and possibly there is some trick to solve
the problem, but I can't find any information in the web, so I'm attaching the
log to see if you can guess it for me.

This software is possibly not used by many other Non-Windows users, but even so
I found a reference to it for an old version in the App database, and also
queries of other users with the same problem. It would be great for me to be
able to run it directly from my machine without having to resort to a virtual
machine.

Best regards,

Luís Neves

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Luís Neves  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|                            |pwrworld.com

--- Comment #1 from Luís Neves  ---
The demo version/student version is free to download, but a form has to be
filled

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Louis Lenders  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #2 from Louis Lenders  ---
Hi,

did you install this in wine? Or did you copy it from a windowspartition?

Because I requested the demo but it doesn`t install at all for me. I` ll open a
bugreport that.

Regards

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Louis Lenders  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Depends on|                            |46881

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--- Comment #3 from Louis Lenders  ---
Created attachment 63949
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63949
hack

Hi, could you try if the attached hack changes anything for you? It`s not a
patch but really a hack to pinpoint where the crash comes from (and if we have
same crash)

I found that though the installer crashes, the 32 bit version starts fine, but
the 64 bit one crashes for me too. I`ll attach debuglog later. the attached
hack makes it start for me.

But note that  the program might be  a bit different; I have  :

pwd
/home/louis/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PowerWorld/Simulator
Education-Evalution20
louis@debian:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PowerWorld/Simulator
Education-Evalution20$ ls -al pwrworld.exe 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 louis louis 106029504 Mar 18 16:03 pwrworld.exe

You have:

c:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/PowerWorld/SimulatorGSO17/pwrworld.exe

So you run the 32-bit version I guess, but that one starts fine here (demo
version)

At least: to get more info you might want un the program by

WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine pwrworld.exe &>log

and attach the (bzipped2) log file to this bugreport

[Bug 46879] PowerWold simulator versions 17-> continue to crash

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--- Comment #4 from Luís Neves  ---
Created attachment 63950
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63950
Log from 'WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine pwrworld.exe &>log

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--- Comment #5 from Luís Neves  ---
Hi,

To use your hack I have to compile wine, right? I have toi see if I'm able to
do it.

In the meanwhile, I've attached the log produced as you suggested.

I'm using Glover and Sarma edition of version 17 (you can find-it in
https://www.powerworld.com/gloveroverbyesarma). It's supposed to be just as a
companion to the book, but I thinbk you can download it the same. Nevertheless,
I had this problem with all versions of powerworld since version 17, even in
the demo/student version.

I just tried to install the 32 bit demo version and it fails to install here
(I'm using the binary package of Wine 4.0 downloaded today).

Thanks

Luís Neves

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--- Comment #6 from Louis Lenders  ---
> I just tried to install the 32 bit demo version and it fails to install here
> (I'm using the binary package of Wine 4.0 downloaded today).
>
> Thanks
>
> Luís Neves

Hi, even though the installer crashes, the app is probably installed anyway.
Could you try if the 32-bit version runs for you. (Look in
~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/PowerWorld/***somename**/pwrworld.exe

Thanks

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--- Comment #7 from Luís Neves  ---
Hi

I compiled wine but it seems that currently in MacOS I can only compile the 64
bit version, which does not work in this case as you realized.

So I tried to install the 32 bit version of powerworld 20 with the Wine stable,
Wine staging and Wine devel binary packages, downloaded today from
https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html. In all cases, I could
not install the 32 bit version (the installer crashes before copying any
files). I used new .wine directories to be sure there were no conflicts from
previous installations.

I will check later with Linux to see if it works there.

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--- Comment #8 from Louis Lenders  ---
(In reply to Luís Neves from comment #4)
> Created attachment 63950 [details]
> Log from 'WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine pwrworld.exe &>log

Hi Luis, from the log: wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\pwrworld.exe"

The debuglog is not useful, you have to cd into the directory where it is first
to start the program.
I guess that would be cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\
(x86)/PowerWorld/SimulatorGSO17/

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--- Comment #9 from Luís Neves  ---
Created attachment 63982
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63982
WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine pwrworld.exe &>logstaging

Obtained with Wine Staging (4.3) in MacOs, and PowerWorld Simulator Glover,
Overbye & Sarma Edition, version 17

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--- Comment #10 from Luís Neves  ---
I apologise for my previous mistake. It was dummy.

I had to kill the process at the end (I had also forgot to comment on this, as
it always happen - I had to kill the wine-preloader to force it to stop).

Recalling:
I'm not able to install the normal demo version (20) in 32 bit or 64 bit in
Wine 4.0, 4.3 and 4.4 for Mac.
Version 17 of the simulator is 32 bit only, AFAIK
The installer of version 17 also produces a few errors and fails at the end,
but after copying the files to the destination.
There is some problem (with Xcode, I believe) that for now prevents me from
compiling the 32 bit version of wine, so I couldn't test the hack.

Best regards,
Luís Neves

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--- Comment #11 from Louis Lenders  ---
Created attachment 63988
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63988
last 25000 lines before crash

Hi, I extracted the last 25000 lines before crash

This looks really different than the crash I got with the 64-bit version

I don`t know where it comes from. A few trial and error things you might try
otherwise (maybe you`re lucky) are
-change windows version (to winxp or /and win 8
- disable dwmapi (WINEDLLOVERRIDES=dwmapi=d wine pwrworld.exe)
- winetricks corefonts
-winetricks comctl32 (but that might crash earlier, set it back to native if it
doesn`t work)

[Bug 46879] PowerWold simulator versions 17-> continue to crash

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Bug 46879 depends on bug 46881, which changed state.

Bug 46881 Summary: Power World Simulator installer needs unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSourceListForceResolutionW
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

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--- Comment #12 from Luís Neves  ---
I tried everything without success.

Thanks anyway.
Luís Neves