[Bug 24501] New: Games For Windows - Live: client doesn't start with mono

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24501

Summary: Games For Windows - Live: client doesn't start with
                    mono
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.3
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: mscoree
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

It wants .Net 3.5, but that doesn't work in wine. In mono, fails with:
** (GFWLClient.exe:8): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Client\GFWLClient.exe could
not be loaded:
     Assembly:   PresentationFramework    (assemblyref_index=2)
     Version:    3.0.0.0
     Public Key: 31bf3856ad364e35
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the
MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly
(C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Client).

which is WPF, and according to Mono, http://mono-project.com/WPF, they have no
plans to implement (big project, not much reward).

I'm filing a bug here mostly to collect duplicates. If a lot of duplicates show
up, perhaps Novell/Mono will change their mind...

To reproduce:
$ winetricks -q gfw mono26
$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games\ for\ Windows\ -\
LIVE\Client
$ wine GFWLClient.exe

[Bug 24501] Games For Windows - Live: client doesn't start with mono

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--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] 2010-12-25 02:33:18 CST ---
It is crucial to get GfW LIVE work, but to accomplish this we need to focus for
better .NET Framework >= 3.5 support, because this is very problematic and
serious problem in Wine.

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--- Comment #2 from Vincent Povirk  2010-12-25 07:58:27 CST ---
The current problems with .NET 3.5 (listed at
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10166) appear to
be mostly in msi and d3d9. It's very unlikely that the same person will choose
between that and implementing WPF for Mono. In fact, it's unlikely that any
Wine developer will want to work on WPF. The actual work will be almost
entirely in C# to be contributed to the Mono project. So I don't think this bug
will distract anyone from work on native .NET 3.5.

If you want to help with GFWL in native .NET (without writing any code), try it
and file (and/or update) bugs for any problems you encounter.

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--- Comment #3 from Anastasius Focht  2012-02-19 13:22:46 CST ---
Hello,

this bug will most likely stay forever ;-)

Use .NET Framework 3.5 for GFWL, it is installable (appdb/winetricks).

Currently the client runs into bug 18640

--- snip ---
Unhandled Exception: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Cannot create
instance of 'OuterGlowBitmapEffect' defined in assembly 'PresentationCore,
Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'. Exception
from HRESULT: 0x88980406  Error at object 'System.Windows.Controls.Border' in
markup file 'GFWLClient;component/windows/dialogwindow.xaml'. --->
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x88980406): Exception from
HRESULT: 0x88980406
   at System.Windows.Media.Composition.DUCE.Channel.SyncFlush()
   at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.CompleteRender()
   at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.CreateChannels()
   at System.Windows.Media.MediaSystem.ConnectChannels(MediaContext mc)
   at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext..ctor(Dispatcher dispatcher)
   at System.Windows.Media.MediaContext.From(Dispatcher dispatcher)
   at System.Windows.Media.Effects.BitmapEffect..ctor()
   at System.Windows.Media.Effects.OuterGlowBitmapEffect..ctor()
   at System.Windows.Markup.KnownTypes.CreateKnownElement(KnownElements
knownElement)
   at System.Windows.Markup.BamlRecordReader.CreateInstanceFromType(Type type,
Int16 typeId, Boolean throwOnFail)
--- snip ---

$ sha1sum gfwlivesetup.exe 
80959e47d83691e8427ad51e6923478b397ac649  gfwlivesetup.exe

$ wine --version
wine-1.4-rc4

Regards

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--- Comment #4 from Qian Hong  2012-10-26 10:15:35 CDT ---
Hello,

WPF is also needed by Netease Phoebe (网易相册).

mono trace show the below message:
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[0xb7570b60: 0.00195 1] ENTER: System.AppDomain:DoAssemblyResolve
(string,bool)(this:0x55fa0[System.AppDomain Phoebe.exe],
[STRING:0x63f00:PresentationFramework, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35], 0, )
[0xb7570b60: 0.00197 1] LEAVE: System.AppDomain:DoAssemblyResolve
(string,bool)[OBJECT:(nil)]
The entry point method could not be loaded
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http://download.ephoto.163.com/setup/Phoebe-Installer-Full.exe
$ sha1sum Phoebe-Installer-Full.exe 
d1f7564c2165197ad994cdb647cbc9f6abb182ce  Phoebe-Installer-Full.exe

The installer works well but the app itself doesn't start ( StartPhoebe.exe or
Phoebe.exe)

Unfortunately `winetricks -q dotnet30` doesn't help for Phoebe, I'll file a bug
for that.

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--- Comment #5 from François Gouget  2012-11-12 10:37:13 CST ---
*** Bug 32195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #6 from Alistair Leslie-Hughes  2012-11-13 02:47:48 CST ---
The Presentation Framework is available from

https://github.com/mono/olive

but it's not beeing updated in a few years and most of its just stubs.

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--- Comment #7 from Anastasius Focht  2013-01-01 07:44:03 CST ---
*** Bug 32624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 24501] wine-mono does not support WPF

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            Summary|Games For Windows - Live:   |wine-mono does not support
                   |client doesn't start with   |WPF
                   |mono (needs WPF)            |

--- Comment #8 from Austin English  2013-10-28 15:16:44 CDT ---
Games for windows is no longer supported, so adjusting the title.

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*** Bug 30429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #10 from Linards  ---
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> Games for windows is no longer supported, so adjusting the title.

Maybe it is worth to add some deprecated windows tools handling in
winetricks...?

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*** Bug 41759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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*** Bug 45019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #13 from mirh  ---
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf

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--- Comment #14 from [e-mail] ---
This is a big step I think. But this version is just for .NET Core. I wonder if
this will work with mono easily. So the question is, how to use it in Wine. Is
there still any advantage for (wine-)mono or is (wine-)dotnetcore the future?

Btw. MS did the same for Winforms ( https://github.com/dotnet/winforms ) and
WinUI ( https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml ) for UWP apps.

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*** Bug 46521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #16 from Vincent Povirk  ---
So far, very little code as been released in that WPF repository for .NET Core.
When it's complete, we will likely be able to use it with wine-mono, with some
modifications.

Some of the WPF code uses C++/CLI, so we may need Windows SDK tools to build
it. Until we can build it using free software tools on Linux, it'll have to be
a separate package.

The winforms code released for .NET Core is more complete, and it is included
on the master branch of wine-mono (but the WebBrowser control doesn't fully
work because Mono lacks IDispatch support, and there are probably other bugs
I'm not awar4e of).

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--- Comment #17 from Vincent Povirk  ---
It seems they're dumping all the code at once:
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/720

It does indeed contain Managed C++ code, which is a challenge.

The next step for us will be to build this on Windows with the appropriate
versioning, and try to get it running in Wine Mono.

Once it works, we can build it as a separate package, then think about how to
remove the Windows build dependency so it can go in Wine Mono. The amount of
Managed C++ code is relatively small, so we can probably work something out.

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--- Comment #18 from Vincent Povirk  ---
Turns out there are still some components missing, most notably wpfgfx (aka
MilCore). It probably makes sense to keep waiting for now.

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--- Comment #19 from Vincent Povirk  ---
I've started work on importing this. I figure we'll deal with any missing parts
as we go. For now, System.Xaml is in on the master branch, and WindowsBase
builds but its System.Windows.Threading implementation doesn't work.

It's still a low priority for me and likely to take a long time regardless.

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--- Comment #20 from Vincent Povirk  ---
Most of the WPF libraries have now been imported into Wine Mono on the master
branch. We're missing a couple of major components that haven't been
open-sourced: wpfgfx and PresentationNative. Simple test applications seem to
work when using those components from .NET Core 3:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1

(This also requires d3dcompiler_47_cor3.dll, for some reason they renamed it
and shipped it with .NET Core.)

The .NET Core license which covers those dll's doesn't seem to exclude Wine, so
AFAIK using them in that way is fine:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en/dotnet_library_license.htm

I don't think the license would allow me to distribute them with Wine Mono
because I don't think Wine or Wine Mono would be considered "applications".
Even if it did, I'd prefer not to include binary blobs in Wine Mono.

There's some hope that wpfgfx will be open-sourced in the future, but
PresentationNative will not.

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--- Comment #21 from mirh  ---
Aaaand it's only half a million lines of code, lol.
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/pull/2553

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--- Comment #22 from Vincent Povirk  ---
Eh, I've gotten used to integrating huge code dumps. It's just a bit
time-consuming.

They've also added some sort of redist project for PresentationNative, but I
don't understand how it works.

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--- Comment #23 from Esme Povirk  ---
With wine-mono master and wpf on the textformatting branch, I now get this
exception with Netease Phoebe:

System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field
'Com.Netease.Phoebe.ServerAPI.ServerAPILib:_engine' (8) due to: Could not load
file or assembly 'Microsoft.JScript, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.

That's after unmapping z: (because it seems this program tries to scan the
whole filesystem and infinitely recurses) and making drive letters for
wine-mono's global install location and /usr/share/fonts.

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--- Comment #24 from Esme Povirk  ---
With the release of Wine Mono 5.1.1, I think this bug can be closed. Lots of
stuff is broken in our version of WPF, but we have it and it has a decent
chance of at least starting a given application.

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--- Comment #25 from Brendan McGrath  ---
(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #3)
> Hello,
>
> this bug will most likely stay forever ;-)

A slap down 8 years in the making. Well done Esme. I've been watching this one
since WPF was open sourced and you've made impressive progress.

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--- Comment #26 from Esme Povirk  ---
Resolving, it's incomplete but we do support WPF now.

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--- Comment #27 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 6.12.