On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 21:17, Ann and Jason Edmeades wrote:
Hello,
I have noticed that modern installers are struggling with wine, as a few people have reported here.
Yes, unfortunately it seems installers are becoming a problem again :(
I am running no-windows (except msvcrt for now) and seeing things which range from: Windows not being drawn completely Windows not being re-drawn Installers which hang completely
This is probably for InstallShield installers... NSIS works perfectly for instance, I did some work on it a few months ago. TransGaming did some work on allowing InstallShield to repaint properly, the inter-thread marshalling stuff. I think that's coming back to WineHQ but I'm not sure.
Questions...
- Is anyone actively looking at it?
Well the DCOM part of Wine is not really finished, but there should be enough to allow installers to work. Like I said, Ove did some work on this.
- What system dlls would make installing easier or possible?
Installing DCOM98 and making all the OLE dlls native would help I'd guess, but dcom no longer installs because the version numbers in our ole32 dll is too high :) There is a workaround though.
thanks -mike