[OLE #10] Make out of process COM work with OXID based marshal ids

[tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net]

Robert Shearman wrote:
> tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net wrote:
> 
>> I just want to say that I tried out this patch. It does not fix the 
>> problem for InstallShield 6. I have a bug report in bugzilla if you 
>> are interested. Right now AFAIKT InstallSheild is seriously broken 
>> (for quite some time) and I am unable to use Native ole to workaround 
>> the problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Why does native ole not work?

Because I did not have stdole32.tlb since I usually run wine with no windows 
files. ;^) When I applied Mikes patch and imported a stdole32.tlb file from 
windows the program installs.

Not having our own version of stdole32.tlb means that the at least InstallShield 
6 will not work "out of the box".

We have had a couple of proposals for implementing our own version of 
stdole32.tlb. Huw Davies' is the most recent, it was submitted to wine patches 
by Vincent Béron. 
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/12/0053.html. and the most 
recent discussion thread is here. 
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/12/0164.html . The upshot of 
which was that Alexandre said that it should be installed at compile time.

Anyways I was wondering I anyone could give me an update.

> 
>> If there is anyway I can help this process I please tell me.
> 
> 
> 
> If you don't want to assist us in the programming work, then you can 
> help us by testing things that should work (I'll include a comment in my 
> message to wine-patches if I think something should start working with 
> the patch). Each program's InstallShield seems to be unique and they 
> usually break in unique ways, so any help with testing different 
> installers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

I am currently building wine with Vincent's and Mike's patches applied to see if 
it will install without native stdole32.tlb. I will let you know what the 
results are.

-- 

Tony Lambregts