On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 03:05 Jefferson Carpenter <jeffersoncarpenter2@gmail.com> wrote:
winetricks -q, rather.  I'm not married to adding mfc42 if there's a
workaround that can be used instead.

Sorry, I should have checked bugzilla first!

On 4/14/2019 8:01 AM, Jefferson Carpenter wrote:
> Didn't check this first https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657
>
> However, the patch allows PidGen.dll referred to in the above bug to do
> its dirty work, which should remove a blockage from some games.
>
> The 'winetricks -w mfc42' workaround should still work even if Wine
> begins to implement mfc42.
>
> On 4/14/2019 6:08 AM, Austin English wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 01:05 Jefferson Carpenter <
>> jeffersoncarpenter2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What does this accomplish? I.e. how does it improve things over the
>> current
>> situation?


Just because there's a workaround doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.

The problem though is that it's completely undocumented. I don't think adding a stub with no exports that is unlikely to be implemented improves things over the status quo.