[Bug 28225] Wine refuses to load native MSVCP90.dll, and won't even say why.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28225

--- Comment #9 from Skotlex <skotlex at mailforce.net> 2011-08-31 13:37:21 CDT ---
When implementing the "windows behaviour", you have to consider the fact that
Wine has a very non-windows-like option which allows you to specify DLL
selecting priority.

When a higher version manifest is picked, but the DLL selected by this manifest
is not usable, it is equivalent to not having that DLL installed. Currently
Wine will simply bail out, as if the installation is broken. You should
uninstall that manifest or restore the DLL.

This may not seem like common sense, but I can foretell there will be many bug
reports concerning this issue in the future. When you select "DLL=native" and
wine wants to force the built-in DLL (and fails because it can), that is
against what users expect.

Perhaps, when looking for the manifest file to use, you should check if the DLL
is available. So before selecting the highest level version manifest, it should
ensure that the DLL it is pointed to is selectable, if not, the manifest should
be skipped and the next one in the hierarchy should be selected.

But then again, this is just what I believe "most users" would expect Wine to
behave like, regardless of what the official behaviour is documented to be.

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