On 30.10.2015 17:42, Theodore Dubois wrote:
Wine Staging includes some patches to fix Steam
web browsing, but they are deactivated on Mac because they apparently require special
build flags. Does anyone know what this refers to?
~Theodore
The staged patchset adds thunk wrappers for ntdll functions, but to be compatible
with Windows, they have to contain absolute addresses. This requires text relocations,
which are not allowed by default on OSX. Since this issue was discovered shortly before
the last release, disabling the patchset on OSX was easier than the necessary configure.ac
changes, but I'm working on a solution. Unless we hit some impossible to solve
problems Wine Staging 1.7.54 will make the Steam fix also available on OSX. ;)
I took a look at this problem and the patchset and I think we should be
able to avoid text relocation in this case. I should have a proof of
concept patch soon.
Thanks,
Jacek