InstallShield 6 again (debuggers requested)

[Ove Kaaven]

Here are some kludgy patches (against the current WineHQ CVS) that's
supposed to make InstallShield 6 with its stupid interprocess COM sort of
work, but it doesn't for some reason, probably because of something else
in Wine that's broken... and because of a lack of time, I think I really
need some debugging assistance.

Most of these patches are too ugly to be submitted to the official wine
as-is, I'll clean these parts up later, but probably not before
InstallShield has been debugged and actually works with these hacks.

To make this run, you need to copy stdole32.tlb from a real windows and
put into c:\windows\system. Then run your favorite InstallShield 6
setup.exe and wait for it to crash. --debugmsg +ole is recommended. It
crashes for me after about 25 remote method calls. If you find out why,
let me know. Please.

[Ove Kaaven]

We still don't have progress, but Alexandre committed the stuff I
submitted, so here's an updated diff against the latest CVS...
good luck debugging...

[Daniel Walker]

I got a marshalling error from IKernel.exe ..

trace:ole:StdMarshal_Release (0x403ab9f0)->Release()
trace:ole:LRPC_feed marshalling error 80070057
trace:ole:RpcChannel_Release (0x403ab9a0)->Release()

If that means anything ..

Daniel Walker

Ove Kaaven wrote:
> We still don't have progress, but Alexandre committed the stuff I
> submitted, so here's an updated diff against the latest CVS...
> good luck debugging...

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Daniel Walker wrote:
> I got a marshalling error from IKernel.exe ..
>
> trace:ole:StdMarshal_Release (0x403ab9f0)->Release()
> trace:ole:LRPC_feed marshalling error 80070057
> trace:ole:RpcChannel_Release (0x403ab9a0)->Release()
>
> If that means anything ..

Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps
you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed?

[Daniel Walker]

Ove Kaaven wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Daniel Walker wrote:
> >   I got a marshalling error from IKernel.exe ..
> >
> > trace:ole:StdMarshal_Release (0x403ab9f0)->Release()
> > trace:ole:LRPC_feed marshalling error 80070057
> > trace:ole:RpcChannel_Release (0x403ab9a0)->Release()
> >   If that means anything ..
>
> Probably only that there's a problem with your setup. For example, perhaps
> you forgot to copy stdole32.tlb from real windows, as instructed?

No , I did that..

Daniel Walker

[Ove Kaaven]

OK, we finally figured out the problem... here are updated proxy.c files
that, when you also apply the MoveFileEx patch, manages to run through the
"Preparing InstallShield Wizard" progress bar before it stops on
unimplemented rpcrt4 stuff. I'm working on it...

[Ove Kaaven]

Almost there, here's the current state of the patch, now with more hacks
than ever before (but you also need the MoveFileEx and DispGetParam
patches I've submitted to wine-patches). The current showstopper is a bug
in Wine's SLTG typelib loader (it crashes reading the iuser.dll typelib
resource). I think that once that typelib bug is fixed, it should only
have minor issues left, or even work outright... I've already mailed Huw
about the problem, but if anyone else wants to fix it, *I* don't mind...

[Huw D M Davies]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:06:14AM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Almost there, here's the current state of the patch, now with more hacks
> than ever before (but you also need the MoveFileEx and DispGetParam
> patches I've submitted to wine-patches). The current showstopper is a bug
> in Wine's SLTG typelib loader (it crashes reading the iuser.dll typelib
> resource). I think that once that typelib bug is fixed, it should only
> have minor issues left, or even work outright... I've already mailed Huw
> about the problem, but if anyone else wants to fix it, *I* don't mind...

For those of you playing along at home, this should fix it.  A prettier
solution will be submitted to wine-patches when I become unjetlagged.

Huw.
PS The line nos. will probably be off, but I'm sure the interested will be able
to sort that out.