I use a LD_PRELOAD before running wine so that i can debug my application.
The library which is preloaded is able to replace system dlsym and from that, other consequence library call.
There is no problem until, i put some Detour code(hot patching) into the kernel32.dll.so address space. But the very funny things is this ** THE PROGRAM CRASHES BEFORE MY HOTPATCH IS APPLIED **
so it seems somehow the order of cause and effect is extremely weird and frightening to me. How can a piece of code which is not excecuted be teh cause for errors PRIOR/BEFORE to its execution. And this is surely happening because when i uncomment the Hotpatch/detour lines the problem goes away.
here are some lines from the crashs ...
err:module:attach_process_dlls "user32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\windows\system32\winemenubuilder.exe" failed, status c0000005 wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 0x7c9e4cd7 at address 0x7c9e4cd7 (thread 000b), starting debugger... err:module:DelayLoadFailureHook failed to delay load user32.dll.BroadcastSystemMessageW wine: Call from 0x7b83ba92 to unimplemented function user32.dll.BroadcastSystemMessageW, aborting wine: Unimplemented function user32.dll.BroadcastSystemMessageW called at address 0x7b83ba92 (thread 001d), starting debugger...
Another thing to notice is that this was tested using wine1.4.1
However it DOES work with wine1.5.10 ... to get something to work for me is not the challenge, its to understand the logic behind why something does not.
THanks a lot and I am grateful for any who contributes his knowledge to this problem i am a real NOVICE