[Bug 10492] New: SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity. cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

Summary: SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg
                    into current directory
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/crayon/
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download, source
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

See http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

To reproduce:
0) download a game that uses sdl midi, e.g. crayon.zip from
http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/crayon/
unzip it, cd into directory 'crayon'
1) you have to have the Visual C++ 6 runtime redistributable libraries
installed. Easiest way to get them is
wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun6
2) you have to have timidity configured and working. First make sure
timidity is up by downloading a .mid file from somewhere and making
sure you can play it with
timidity foo.mid
Then copy /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg to the current directory
before starting the game.  (It also looks in \TIMIDITY\timidity.cfg.)

Timidity seems to be statically linked into SDL_mixer.dll.

Perhaps wineprefixcreate should create a symlink c:\timidity -> /etc/timidity,
but that only works if the current drive when running the game
is C:.  
To get around that, the wine installer could create a symlink
/timidity -> /etc/timidity, but that'd be an unholy hack.
Alternately, Wine could simulate such a symlink internally --
also an unholy hack, but at least one that works even without
really installing wine, and without screwing up the user's root directory.

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity. cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel   2007-11-18 07:35:55 ---
By the way, don't be fooled... the normal SDL's SDL_mixer
doesn't seem to have midi support; you have to go here 
to see it:
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/SDL_mixer/

I filed an enhancement request with the SDL folks,
including a suggested patch, that would move the SDL
timidity.cfg somewhere easier for wine to support; see
http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

--- Comment #2 from Austin English   2008-11-24 00:17:14 ---
Please retest in 1.1.9.

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

--- Comment #3 from Dan Kegel   2008-11-24 00:20:16 ---
c'mon, I gave a nice repro script.  This bug is essentially
"too hard to use midi with wine", so if you're having trouble
with my recipe, you've reproduced the problem :-)

It seems unlikely that our midi has gotten any love, so this bug
is probably still open...

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

Austin English  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #4 from Austin English   2008-11-24 02:22:50 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> c'mon, I gave a nice repro script.  This bug is essentially
> "too hard to use midi with wine", so if you're having trouble
> with my recipe, you've reproduced the problem :-)

I was trying to avoid installing timidity, and thought that would coax you into
verifying your own bugs ;-).
> It seems unlikely that our midi has gotten any love, so this bug
> is probably still open...

Actually, works fine, though it may have been fixed on SDL/crayon's end.

Really addicting game btw.

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Alexandre Julliard   2008-12-05 11:13:14 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.10.

[Bug 10492] SDL-based game won't start unless you copy timidity.cfg into current directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10492

Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|CVS/GIT                     |unspecified