[Bug 16645] Shiny Messiah using Glide crashes on start

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16645





--- Comment #6 from Christian Costa <titan.costa at wanadoo.fr>  2008-12-27 11:28:10 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > If you expect glide to work you need to install a glide wrapper first.  Glide
> > > is not part of Windows, so Wine has no reason to provide it.
> > > 
> > > http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/
> > > 
> > 
> > That's right but it's not provided with the application either. Glide was very
> > popular and there was a lot of games using it. For that reason, I think we
> > should consider it as part of windows. That would be an added value for wine to
> > be able to run legacy glide apps without searching through the web to get a
> > good wrapper.
> > 
> 
> The same argument could be made for mfc42 and friends.

I tought apps provided mfc42.dll but maybe I'm wrong.
I would say it's closer to asio problem. An implementation exists but is not
incorporated in wine tree due to legal issue.

> Implementing the win32
> API itself is the priority at this time. Most developers are focused one that.
> If you'd like to take up the task, of course, feel free (not meant to be rude
> or condescending). 
> 

No problem. :-)
It is more or less in my todo list but I admit it has the lowest priority.


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