Windows programs no more running with the new wine-glibc

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Sat Nov 15 07:07:29 CST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:24, Vincent Béron wrote:
> Disabling exec-shield (either via setarch i386 or with the proc thing)
> works sometimes, depending on the loading addresses assigned to
> libraries. If something (libc, libm, libdl, etc.) uses that address,
> nothing Win32 will be usable. When exec-shield is disabled, new
> libraries will be assigned loading addresses starting at the lower value
> possible, but already assigned ones (via prelinking) will still keep
> theirs, hence possibly blocking execution.
> 
> I'll test tomorrow disabling prelinking.

Are you saying prelinking can break wine? If so then this is rather bad,
prelink is being rolled out on every distro.




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