Am Montag 12 Februar 2007 18:56 schrieb Luis C. Busquets Pérez:
Dear all,
I send this e-mail to you as I have not found a particular section to put it. I have developped a little program that enables to know the functions an exe or dll calls. I understand that it may be really helpful to know if a program will run perfectly on wine or if there is still a function missing.
I think wine-devel is the better list for that. For inclusion in wine please send diffs against the wine code rather than some zipped sources. And I am not sure if pascal is allowed in wine. C or bash scripts are better.
The idea behind this program is the following: A program compiled to run on MS Windows calls a number of system/program libraries. This tool enables to know which functions a program compiled for MS Windows needs.
I think winedump does that, but I could be mistaken
A tool such as WINE provides an implementation of the Windows API. This implementation has to provide at least the calls that the program calls in order to run correctly under WINE.
Well, not really. That a function is implemented in wine does not necessarily mean that it is free of bugs. In most cases applications do not run because of bugs in the implementation rather than missing functions.
TODO: At this point, you are able to know the calls. In a future time, extrdll or a script will be able to read the functions that WINE has implemented and tell a user which dlls or functions on dlls the program is missing to run correctly.
There are some other issues too: I don't speak pascall, but can your program deal with lazy linking, i.e. functions loaded after startup with LoadDLL? And I think you will not be able to read COM interfaces. For example for Direct3D9 you will see only one call, CreateDirect3D9, although d3d9 has numerous interfaces with a few hundred methods.
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Stefan Dösinger