Wine FIXME Report 2009 Aug - Dec

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Vincent Povirk
<madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It might be interesting to select for err:module:import_dll lines,
> which are (sometimes) missing dll's.
>
>>   77   |   99  | ole:CoGetClassObject no class object
>> {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x1
>>   75   |   98  | ole:CoGetClassObject class
>> {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
>
> Regedit tells me this is "GameExplorer class", in gameux.dll.
>
> I assume this is the class id for IGameExplorer interface documented
> here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.directx_sdk.igameexplorer.igameexplorer%28VS.85%29.aspx
>
> Searching for that class id in google gives me the impression that
> it's not a problem when it comes up. This makes sense, given that it's
> a vista-only API. Still, it's a surprise to me how widespread the use
> of that class apparently is.

It's a good surprise: Wine has gotten to the point where many people
are trying to use it to play the latest games :-).