software built and worked under wine but not in vista?

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 20/5/10, Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2 at ar.fi.lt> wrote:


> > > 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.

Tried that - the binary differs by 6 bytes - just timestamp and checksum. So using native msvcrt in vcrun6 has no effect.