Winelib and C++ static initialization

Wed Aug 26 10:35:52 CDT 2015

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Am 2015-08-26 um 16:33 schrieb Luke Dunstan:
> If I compile it on Ubuntu 32-bit with wine-1.6.2 with:
Please upgrade to Wine 1.7 for anything development related.

> #include <windows.h>
> 
> struct MyInit {
>         MyInit() {
> OutputDebugStringA("Init ctor\n");
> }
> };
> MyInit InitObj;
> 
> extern "C" int CALLBACK WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE
> hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
> {
> OutputDebugStringA("WinMain()\n");
> return 0;
> }
I found that OutputDebugStringA doesn't write anything here, even if successful. I replaced it with printf calls to get actual output.

> $ ./hellocpp.exe
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Try running it with "wine hellocpp.exe".

Though it's not quite working here either:

stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ ~/build/wine/tools/winegcc/wineg++ test.cpp -o test.exe.so
stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ ~/build/wine/wine test.exe.so 
Init ctor
Segmentation fault
stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ 

A binary compiled with mingw works OK:

stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ i686-w64-mingw32-c++ test.cpp -o test.exe -static
stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ ~/build/wine/wine test.exe    
Init ctor
WinMain()
stefan at retina ~/Desktop $ 

Is there a particular reason why you need Winelib? Usually it's recommended to stick to whatever compiler you're using to create the Windows executable and just running that. The only reason when a winelib compile brings you something is when you want to target a CPU architecture that the Windows tools can't build for, e.g. PowerPC or MIPS.