Installers

[Ann and Jason Edmeades]

Hello,

I have noticed that modern installers are struggling with wine, as a few
people have reported here.

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

Questions...

1. Is anyone actively looking at it?
1a. If No, what 'normally' causes such problems - Ole, windows problems
or others? Where would be a good starting point
2. What system dlls would make installing easier or possible?

Regards,
Jason

[Mike Hearn]

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

[Gerhard W. Gruber]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 21:17:07 +0100, Ann and Jason Edmeades
 wrote:
> Installers which hang completely

I noticed this behaviour on several programs I tried. These were rather old
programs, so I guess it is not something with new installers. One of them was
Dark Project 2 (which is at least two years old, maybe more), and Harry
Potter. I'd like to investigate this, but I don't think that I will manage
this anytime soon. I currently struggle to come to terms winedbg and Agent. :)