software built and worked under wine but not in vista?

[Saulius Krasuckas]

* On Thu, 20 May 2010, Matijn Woudt wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > I have gone ahead and done exactly that - the correct behavior should 
> > be a msg box saying filelist.txt is missing, rather than setupgs.exe 
> > not a valid win32 application.
> >
> > http://www.ghostscript.com/~hintak/setupgs-vista.exe
> > http://www.ghostscript.com/~hintak/setupgs-wine.exe
> 
> There are a few differences I spotted between the two executables:
> 1) setupgs-wine.exe has wrong image size, changing it from 0x2b200 to 
> 0x2b000 makes the executable working under win7.
> 2) setupgs-wine.exe has wrong resource size, probably related to 1), 
> because the size of both executables are the same.
> 3) The assembly in setupgs-wine.exe has only LF line endings, vista has 
> CRLF. This explains 2).
> 
> I don't know the reason for 3), I assume it's a bug somewhere in wine.

Thus it could be a fault in Wine's msvcrt.dll (or the like: msvcr?0.dll).

To check this, it would be nice to run "winetricks vcrun6", recomple the 
app in Wine and see if the resulting exe run OK on Vista.


S.