Debugging Supreme Commander Installer

[Robert Shearman]

Stephan Rose wrote:
> I've been playing around with the supreme commander install most of
> today trying to figure out why it does not want to install. Running with
> +file,+msgbox and noticed the following error for virtually all files:
>
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"TUB500.xsb" not found
> in /home/stephan/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/THQ/Gas Powered
> Games/Supreme Commander/sounds/Voice/fr/Tutorials
>
> This is the file being copied when I get the "Error 87" message from
> Install shield.
>
> Also, pretty much every file, if not every file, gives the same trace in
> the debug log. It's weird that install shield will copy hundreds of
> files with that warning in their trace and not complain until it is 80%
> through.
>
> So then I wondered, is that really the cause or not? I think yes.
> Install shield appears to be kind enough to not re-copy the files if
> they already exist, so I killed the process to keep all files already
> copied and added the one missing file above from my windows install and
> then ran install shield again.
>
> This time around, the file was processed correctly and no error. Instead
> it gives the error now on the next file, which is TUB500.xwb.
>
> Some more trace below:
>
> trace:file:GetFileAttributesW L"c:\\Program Files\\THQ\\Gas Powered
> Games\\Supreme Commander\\sounds\\Voice\\fr\\Tutorials\\TUB500.xwb"
> trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"c:\\Program Files\\THQ\\Gas
> Powered Games\\Supreme Commander\\sounds\\Voice\\fr\\Tutorials\
> \TUB500.xwb",0x334b84,(nil),(nil))
> trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\Program Files\\THQ\\Gas Powered
> Games\\Supreme Commander\\sounds\\Voice\\fr\\Tutorials\\TUB500.xwb" 520
> 0x3348f8 (nil))
> warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"TUB500.xwb" not found
> in /home/stephan/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/THQ/Gas Powered
> Games/Supreme Commander/sounds/Voice/fr/Tutorials
>   

These messages are normal. GetFileAttributes is often used by programs 
to check for the existence of a file.

> trace:file:MoveFileWithProgressW (L"",(null),(nil),(nil),0004)
> trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"",0x3348b8,(nil),(nil))
>   

This is not. Moving a file with a blank name isn't going to work 
properly. Probably a test case is needed to see what happens on Windows. 
However, my guess is that there is a bug elsewhere that causes the 
installer to not get the correct filename.

-- 
Rob Shearman