[try2] gdiplus/tests: Dynamically load gdiplus.dll.

[Nicolas Le Cam]

2009/2/23 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
> Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>> 2009/2/23 Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>:
>>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>>>
>>>> This avoid a messagebox in regression tests on systems that don't have
>>>> GdiPlus.
>>>
>>> This seems wrong because winetest.exe is already supposed to check for
>>> missing dlls. If I remember correctly this was done explicitely so that
>>> individual tests would not have to dynamically link everywhere.
>>>
>>> Also I tested on a platform that does not have gdiplus, and I did not
>>> get a message box. In fact, on that platform, winetest did not extract
>>> gdiplus_test.exe, which also seems very wrong to me.
>>>
>>> So I think that if there's any issue, it's on the winetest.exe side.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On my w2k pro when I launch the winetest obtained from
>> test.winehq.org, I get a MessageBox saying gdiplus is missing, and
>> there's already some tests that load dlls dynamically (advpack,
>> cryptui, fusion) so thought it was the right way.
>>
>> I will have a look on the winetest side.
>>
>> Nicolas Le Cam
>>
>>
>>
> The reason you see this is because next to a normal LoadLibrary we also use the
> .NET variant. On some boxes gdiplus.dll cannot be found through LoadLibrary but
> will trough LoadLibraryShim. As winetest now thinks the library is there it will
> try to launch "gdiplus_test.exe --list" and that of course fails.
>
> Not sure how to approach this.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
>
>

This shouldn't be the case on my box as gdiplus is not present by
default on W2K, and should be manually installed (not available
through windows update), or installed by a third party app.
My test box is a clean install without any third apps, except
PDFCreator to simulate a printer to test this part of the suite. I
will check if it has gdiplus bundled in.

Nicolas Le Cam