Re: Setup .inf files

[Shachar Shemesh]

Chris Morgan wrote:
> The best documentation I've found thus far for inf files, 
> http://www.leeos.com/infdoc.html#Top, doesn't have anything about running 
> programs from inside of an inf file.  If this is possible it would probably 
> make more sense to have the inf file register the dlls.

The way to have an INF run a file is by registering it with (if I recall 
correctly - it has been over four years now) RunOnceEx/Setup in the 
registry. For those who don't follow - RunOnceEx/Setup is a list of 
programs to run, executed synchroniously (i.e. - one does not start 
until the previous one exits), and displaying a small window showing 
where we are along the process). This brings up a small window with the 
list of tasks to carry out immediatly after the INF processing is done. 
There are two problems with this approach:
1. While RunOnceEx/Setup is being processed after each login, the 
mechanism that runs it after INF processing has always been a mystery to 
me. I have found no method, other than running an INF, of triggering a 
processing of RunOnceEx/Setup.
2. Wine(boot) does not currently handle that at all. We currently rely 
on some helper application that does that for us, that usually gets 
installed as part of the IE installation.

The combination of 1+2 means that it'll probably take some time for 
Wine's INF processing to work like Windows on this one.

Setup .inf files

[Chris Morgan]

I spoke with Brian Vincent last night on #winehackers and he mentioned the inf 
sections RunPreSetupCommands/RunPostSetupCommands.  These appear to be pretty 
new, I found them on msdn at 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn...
. This other page mentions them as well 
http://www.crucifer.net/INF_Web/advinf.htm#runpre.

These inf sections don't appear to be handled in wine atm but it appears to be 
just what we need to perform each one of the 'rundll32 some.dll' commands.

Thanks,
Chris

On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:54 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Chris Morgan wrote:
> > The best documentation I've found thus far for inf files,
> > http://www.leeos.com/infdoc.html#Top, doesn't have anything about running
> > programs from inside of an inf file.  If this is possible it would
> > probably make more sense to have the inf file register the dlls.
>
> The way to have an INF run a file is by registering it with (if I recall
> correctly - it has been over four years now) RunOnceEx/Setup in the
> registry. For those who don't follow - RunOnceEx/Setup is a list of
> programs to run, executed synchroniously (i.e. - one does not start
> until the previous one exits), and displaying a small window showing
> where we are along the process). This brings up a small window with the
> list of tasks to carry out immediatly after the INF processing is done.
> There are two problems with this approach:
> - While RunOnceEx/Setup is being processed after each login, the
>
> mechanism that runs it after INF processing has always been a mystery to
> me. I have found no method, other than running an INF, of triggering a
> processing of RunOnceEx/Setup.
> 2. Wine(boot) does not currently handle that at all. We currently rely
> on some helper application that does that for us, that usually gets
> installed as part of the IE installation.
>
> The combination of 1+2 means that it'll probably take some time for
> Wine's INF processing to work like Windows on this one.

Setup .inf files

[Steven Edwards]

--- Chris Morgan  wrote:
> These inf sections don't appear to be handled in wine atm but it
> appears to be 
> just what we need to perform each one of the 'rundll32 some.dll'
> commands.

We have a patch for this in the ReactOS tree its just not quite ready
yet. It for InstallHInfSection right? It should be ready in a few
weeks.
Once its done I will submit a patch to wine-patches.

Thanks
Steven

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Setup .inf files

[Chris Morgan]

I actually already sent in a patch for InstallHinfSection().  You guys should 
submit your changes to wine when you put them in Reactos, duplicating work is 
foolish.

The sections I'd like to use are the RunPreSetupCommands/RunPostSetupCommands 
ones.  These execute programs before and after the installation of an inf 
file is processed, at least as far as I can tell.  This would allow for 
running the rundll32 commands to register dll's.

Chris

On Sunday 15 February 2004 03:36 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
> --- Chris Morgan  wrote:
> > These inf sections don't appear to be handled in wine atm but it
> > appears to be
> > just what we need to perform each one of the 'rundll32 some.dll'
> > commands.
>
> We have a patch for this in the ReactOS tree its just not quite ready
> yet. It for InstallHInfSection right? It should be ready in a few
> weeks.
> Once its done I will submit a patch to wine-patches.
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
> Do you Yahoo!?
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Setup .inf files

[Chris Morgan]

Alright, here is another revision of the patch this time using the 
RegisterDlls section to register the dlls.  The new inf file can be processed 
by running:

programs/rundll32/rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 
132 ./default.inf

Brian Vincent added the NLS and Telephony\Country List sections so the inf 
file should be pretty close to complete.  I'd imagine several registry keys 
were missed although I'm not sure how to tell except by manual inspection of 
winedefault.reg vs. the registry after installing the inf.

I left in the implementations for RunPre/PostSetupCommands sections.  I can't 
find anything on msdn about these sections but I've found several references 
to them by googling.  There seems to be some connection to advpack.dll.

Comments, questions, patches welcome ;-)

Thanks,
Chris

On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:24 pm, Chris Morgan wrote:
> I actually already sent in a patch for InstallHinfSection().  You guys
> should submit your changes to wine when you put them in Reactos,
> duplicating work is foolish.
>
> The sections I'd like to use are the
> RunPreSetupCommands/RunPostSetupCommands ones.  These execute programs
> before and after the installation of an inf file is processed, at least as
> far as I can tell.  This would allow for running the rundll32 commands to
> register dll's.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sunday 15 February 2004 03:36 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > --- Chris Morgan  wrote:
> > > These inf sections don't appear to be handled in wine atm but it
> > > appears to be
> > > just what we need to perform each one of the 'rundll32 some.dll'
> > > commands.
> >
> > We have a patch for this in the ReactOS tree its just not quite ready
> > yet. It for InstallHInfSection right? It should be ready in a few
> > weeks.
> > Once its done I will submit a patch to wine-patches.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steven
> >
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online.
> > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html