mmsystem should be loaded at startup

Andreas Mohr andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Fri Nov 23 15:32:29 CST 2001


On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Joshua Thielen wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Finale expects mmsystem to be present without having to call LoadLibrary 
> on it. It does a GetModuleHandle on mmsystem.dll to find out if the mm 
> extensions are available. I checked out windows 95, and it has mmsystem 
> and winmm loaded when no apps are runing besides  the desktop / 
> explorer. This patch links wine with winmm andmakes winmm load mmsystem 
> on init. Finale gets by this ok now. I don't know if this the correct 
> approach, though.  Could someone (Eric or Alexandre?) please take a look 
> at it before I send it to wine-patches?
OK, I guess that's at least #2, then:
King's Quest V installer does the very same thing.
I've already been discussing this with Alexandre, BTW.

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