[Bug 16645] Shiny Messiah using Glide crashes on start

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16645





--- Comment #4 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2008-12-27 10:14:16 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > If you expect glide to work you need to install a glide wrapper first.  Glide
> > is not part of Windows, so Wine has no reason to provide it.
> > 
> > http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/
> > 
> 
> That's right but it's not provided with the application either. Glide was very
> popular and there was a lot of games using it. For that reason, I think we
> should consider it as part of windows. That would be an added value for wine to
> be able to run legacy glide apps without searching through the web to get a
> good wrapper.
> 

The same argument could be made for mfc42 and friends. Implementing the win32
API itself is the priority at this time. Most developers are focused one that.
If you'd like to take up the task, of course, feel free (not meant to be rude
or condescending). 


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