Star Trek Online changed their routine for d3dcompiler_47.dll

Hi dev's!

I'd like to report something that might have been working in 
wine-staging 2.3 but doesn't work in wine-staging current (2.4) but 
that's not necessarily a wine (mis)understanding as it looks, but I'd 
rather like to point out, the workaround that has been posted here 
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/star-trek-online?msg=190497 
doesn't seem to work anymore and with wine-devel 2.4 it is at least 
possible to see any characters on the login screen, but it crashes right 
after picking any.

This issue might be connected with Cryptic has abandoned dx9 support 
entirely and I'm very grateful that it worked until today and hopefully 
will work again in future.

Thank you for your work and heart to the project! I hope you will reply 
to this mail but it's ok if you don't.

Regards.

[Henri Verbeet]

On 23 March 2017 at 04:56, [e-mail]  wrote:
> I'd like to report something that might have been working in wine-staging
> 2.3 but doesn't work in wine-staging current (2.4) but that's not
> necessarily a wine (mis)understanding as it looks, but I'd rather like to
> point out, the workaround that has been posted here doesn't seem to work
> anymore and with wine-devel 2.4 it is at least possible to see any
> characters on the login screen, but it crashes right after picking any.
>
> This issue might be connected with Cryptic has abandoned dx9 support
> entirely and I'm very grateful that it worked until today and hopefully will
> work again in future.
>
> Thank you for your work and heart to the project! I hope you will reply to
> this mail but it's ok if you don't.

Is there a bug report for this issue? That forum post seems to suggest
a missing d3dcompiler dll, but it would be better to install the
DirectX redistributable in the prefix or get the dll from a Windows
installation than to copy and rename a different version of the dll.

[Matteo Bruni]

2017-03-23 13:33 GMT+01:00 Henri Verbeet :
> On 23 March 2017 at 04:56, [e-mail]  wrote:
> > I'd like to report something that might have been working in wine-staging
> > 2.3 but doesn't work in wine-staging current (2.4) but that's not
> > necessarily a wine (mis)understanding as it looks, but I'd rather like to
> > point out, the workaround that has been posted here doesn't seem to work
> > anymore and with wine-devel 2.4 it is at least possible to see any
> > characters on the login screen, but it crashes right after picking any.
> >
> > This issue might be connected with Cryptic has abandoned dx9 support
> > entirely and I'm very grateful that it worked until today and hopefully will
> > work again in future.
> >
> > Thank you for your work and heart to the project! I hope you will reply to
> > this mail but it's ok if you don't.
>
> Is there a bug report for this issue? That forum post seems to suggest
> a missing d3dcompiler dll, but it would be better to install the
> DirectX redistributable in the prefix or get the dll from a Windows
> installation than to copy and rename a different version of the dll.

d3dcompiler_46.dll and d3dcompiler_47.dll are newer than the latest
DirectX redistributable and AFAIK not available in any MS downloadable
package. As I understand it applications are supposed to bundle those
(see e.g. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee663275(v=vs.85).a...),
at least if they plan to support "older" window versions (not sure
exactly since when those DLLs started being installed by Windows).
Of course renaming the older DLL is a pretty bad hack and you want to
get an actual d3dcompiler_47.dll from Windows or some other game as a
proper workaround.

That said, it's not clear to me that the current issue is related to
d3dcompiler at all. Could you please open a bug on bugs.winehq.org for
this issue (assuming there isn't one yet) with all the relevant
details?

[Henri Verbeet]

On 23 March 2017 at 23:52, Matteo Bruni  wrote:
> d3dcompiler_46.dll and d3dcompiler_47.dll are newer than the latest
> DirectX redistributable and AFAIK not available in any MS downloadable
> package.

It's in the PSDK, but yeah, I guess it's not available as a separate download.