[Wine] Re: msvcr80 and wine 0.9.12

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Pouech <no_spam_at_all_eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr> writes:

    Eric> azathothgr wrote:
    >> There is indeed a manifest file in the same directory, which contains
    >> the dll filename, plus some other info that could be needed to access
    >> the file, now that you mention it..  I think wine doesn't know to
    >> look for it at the moment.. I renamed it and the problem remained
    >> exactly the same, so I'd guess that the manifest file was ignored.
    Eric> IMO, that's not something a file which isn't found, but rather the
    Eric> loading mechanism checking the actual version of a DLL required
    Eric> from the manifest, for which we return another version (or
    Eric> checksum or signature). 

By commenting out FindActCtxSectionString(A|W) one can make the application
start.

It's the problem of wine stub-implementing functions that are only
implemented on the top-modern Win implementation. Most application test for
the availability of the function with GetProcAddress and with out stub
implementation they expect it to be fully implemented.

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