load_dll problem

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On May 20, 2003 01:06 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> winewrap is generating a wrapper script already, isn't it?  So you can
> simply set WINEDLLPATH in there.

Well, that doesn't work. For one, WINEDLLPATH is honoured only in
libs/wine/loader.c:dlopen_dll(), which is invoked only from:
  -- wine_dll_load_main_exe(): Try to load the .so for the main exe.
  -- wine_dll_load(): Load a builtin dll.

A Winelib app with a wrapper calls LoadLibrary("appname.dll"). This
ends up in ./dlls/ntdll/loader.c:load_dll() which calls
SearchPathA(NULL, "appname", ".dll", MAX_PATH,...) to find the DLL.

Herein lies the problem:
  -- SearchPathA does not know about WINEDLLPATH, it will just look
     for "appname.dll" which obviously does not exist (because we
     have "appname.dll.so"). The trace clearly shows that it will
     look in the right directory for "appname.dll", and it fails to
     find it, so it proceeds to look in the WINDOWS dir. So the
     path is not the problem, but rather the fact that SearchPath
     doesn't know to also look for .so file when searching for a .dll.

  -- I've changed the wrapper to LoadLibrary("appname.dll.so"). This
     works a bit better in the sense that now SearchPathA finds the
     file. However, it fails to load because now it tries to load it
     as a native DLL (PE), which is not:

trace:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName (/home/dimi/dev/wine/visual-mingw/bin,L"visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so") -> L"visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so" (L"VISU~Y42.SO")
trace:dosfs:DOSFS_GetFullName returning /home/dimi/dev/wine/visual-mingw/bin/visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so = L"F:\\DEV\\WINE\\VISU~YHA\\BIN\\VISU~Y42.SO"
trace:dosfs:GetDriveTypeW (L"F:\\DEV\\WINE\\VISU~YHA\\BIN\\VISU~Y42.SO")
trace:file:CreateFileW returning 0x38
trace:module:PE_LoadImage loading F:\dev\wine\visual-mingw\bin\visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so
warn:module:load_dll Loading of native DLL F:\dev\wine\visual-mingw\bin\visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so failed (status -1073741595).
warn:module:load_dll Failed to load module 'F:\dev\wine\visual-mingw\bin\visual-mingw-wrap.dll.so'; status=-1073741595

    Note: I've renamed the wrapped app "<appname>-wrap.dll" to avoid possible
    conflicts with app-supplied DLLs.

-- 
Dimi.