[Wine] Network play in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

[Vincent Povirk]

> Some issues:
> The UDP patch does not seem to work on Wine (see Vitamin's reply). It
> might be that a large part of Wine's network implementation is in the
> buildin wsock32? (Someone more familiar with the source code might be
> able to answer that) (It might be that that wsock32 only intercepts
> IPX and call the real wsock32 for the UDP part, but that Wine does not
> allow that to work...)

To get some real information, I've examined the import/export tables
of the dll using winedump. It appears that it's based on ws2_32, which
Wine implements. Wine's ws2_32 is not based on wsock32 (in fact it is
the other way around). So I think that this should work.

That said, I could not examine the export table. Winedump simply gave me this:

  Entry Pt  Ordn  Name
Can't grab functions' name table

It's possible that Wine can't load this dll because of trouble reading
the export table.

In any case, I think you should get a log of the console output when
you try to use this dll so that we can know more things instead of
blindly speculating.

> The real (long term) solution would probably be if Wine / the kernel
> added an option to emulate IPX over IP (like Dosbox), with various
> compatibility options... Another would be if Wine implemented enough
> APIs that native wsock, and its replacements can work. (This might
> take )

I'm naively hoping the problem is much simpler than missing API's and
that IPX tunnelling in wine / linux is unnecessary.

Vincent Povirk