[Bug 53634] New: Outer Wilds Mod Loader: Application cannot read config due to Newtonsoft.Json not working correctly in Wine

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53634

Bug ID: 53634
           Summary: Outer Wilds Mod Loader: Application cannot read config
                    due to Newtonsoft.Json not working correctly in Wine
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.16
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: mscoree
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 73032
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=73032
wine logs

When trying to run OWML in a clean Wine prefix it will fail due to issues with
the Newtonsoft.Json library.

Running the same application with regular .NET 4.8 works perfectly fine. This
issue occurs in multiple applications that use Newtonsoft.Json.

To reproduce:
* Download OWML: wget
https://github.com/ow-mods/owml/releases/download/2.6.0/OWML.zip
* Unzip it: unzip OWML.zip
* Start it with a fresh prefix: WINEPREFIX=$PWD/.prefix wine OWML.Launcher.exe

See attachment for error log.

To fix it simply install dotnet48 with winetricks: WINEPREFIX=$PWD/.prefix
winetricks dotnet48

Starting it now will work.

[Bug 53634] Outer Wilds Mod Loader: Application cannot read config due to Newtonsoft.Json not working correctly in Wine

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53634

--- Comment #1 from Esme Povirk  ---
This is affected by https://github.com/madewokherd/wine-mono/issues/138, it
ships a bunch of .NET dll's that shouldn't be used but currently are.

I can't easily work around it because it has a reference to System.Core.dll
with the wrong publickeytoken.

[Bug 53634] Outer Wilds Mod Loader: Application cannot read config due to Newtonsoft.Json not working correctly in Wine

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53634

--- Comment #2 from Esme Povirk  ---
There's code in Mono that's supposed to map the publickeytoken for System.Core
from silverlight to ecma, and that's not being called for some reason. If I
hack around that, and remove all the .NET Framework dll's that shouldn't be
loaded, it then fails to start for me because it can't find the game installed.

So we need to solve that Wine Mono bug so the Mono GAC takes priority, and
figure out how publickeytoken remapping is supposed to work.

[Bug 53634] Outer Wilds Mod Loader: Application cannot read config due to Newtonsoft.Json not working correctly in Wine

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53634

Esme Povirk  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Esme Povirk  ---
Created attachment 73052
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=73052
work-around for Wine Mono

For completeness, here is the diff I used to work around the failure to load
System.Core.