[Wine]Re: Can't get things running

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Fri Mar 4 17:01:05 CST 2005


Duane Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> The "fixme:actctx:CreateActCtxW stub" means that while Wine has the 
> function CreateActCtxW, the "stub" message means that there is nothing 
> in the function that does anything. And you can see that here:
> 
> http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/kernel/actctx.c#L51
> 
> Oddly enough, many programs will continue to operate okay with a 
> remarkably large number of stubs in the Wine code. But in your case, it 
> is having a bad effect. About the only thing that can be done is to 
> actually write some code to at least partially implement that function. 
> Since this is in the kernel DLL, you cannot substitute a Windows DLL.

I'll add one other possibility that might make the program work, 
assuming you are willing to compile wine. You might try adding the line
SetLastError( ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED);
before the return in the function. See the function QueryActCtxW() in 
the same file.




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