[Bug 4666] HackShield anti-cheat system doesn't work (Themida software protection used as wrapper incompatible with Wine)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4666

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--- Comment #40 from jhgf  2011-08-21 04:58:10 CDT ---
I tried it with the latest version of AirRivals.
It's a pain.

The first problem is the API emulation function. (HackShield error 101)
HackShield copies part of certain API functions to a private buffer and
obfuscates them (interleaving garbage instructions and jmps, shuffeling around
registers and so on). This falls over with PIC code.
__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx sets $ebx to the module offset, but usually $ebx is
preserved for stdcall functions, so HackShield gets confused and clobbers it.
This happens at least for RtlAllocateHeap, GetCommandLineA and RegOpenKey.
This also breaks relay badly.
Compiling adavapi32, kernel32 and ntdll as non-pic code fixes this.
Add something like this to Makefile.in:
+EXTRADLLFLAGS = -fno-pic
+MODCFLAGS = -fno-pic

The next problem is even uglier:
HackShield copies ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll, ws2_32.dll and the
psapi.dll from the HShield directory to some Temp location, modifies them in
some way and tries to LoadLibrary them.
This fails badly on wine, because the files in system32 are only placeholder
dlls for the actual .so files. That's pretty hard to even hack around.