[Bug 29323] Lotus SmartSuite Millennium 'fastsite.exe' fails to load: 'Bad EXE format' (PE IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.SizeOfImage value too small to fit last section)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29323

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                URL|ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lot |ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lot
                   |usweb/product/smartsuite/de |usweb/product/smartsuite/de
                   |mo/suitedemo.EXE            |mo/suitedemo.EXE
          Component|-unknown                    |ntdll
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
            Summary|wordpro.exe failed to load: |Lotus SmartSuite Millennium
                   |Bad EXE format              |'fastsite.exe' fails to
                   |                            |load: 'Bad EXE format' (PE
                   |                            |IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.SizeO
                   |                            |fImage value too small to
                   |                            |fit last section)

--- Comment #5 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello folks,

since you verified all executables flagged by Wine loader as 'Bad EXE format'
failing the same way on NT-based Windows versions it seems Wine's loader
behaves as designed/specified.

--- snip ---
0026:trace:module:load_native_dll Trying native dll
L"C:\\Lotus\\fastsite\\fastsite.exe"
0026:trace:module:map_image mapped PE file at 0x400000-0x4fa000
0026:trace:module:map_image mapping section .text at 0x401000 off 400 size
b6800 virt b6682 flags e0000020
0026:trace:module:map_image clearing 0x4b7800 - 0x4b8000
0026:trace:module:map_image mapping section .rdata at 0x4b8000 off b6c00 size
33000 virt 32e49 flags 40000040
0026:trace:module:map_image mapping section .data at 0x4eb000 off e9c00 size
8400 virt 9068 flags c0000040
0026:trace:module:map_image clearing 0x4f3400 - 0x4f4000
0026:trace:module:map_image mapping section .idata at 0x4f5000 off f2000 size
3a00 virt 3898 flags c0000040
0026:trace:module:map_image clearing 0x4f8a00 - 0x4f9000
0026:warn:module:map_image Section .rsrc too large (f9000+5000/fa000)
0026:warn:module:load_dll Failed to load module
L"C:\\Lotus\\fastsite\\fastsite.exe"; status=c000007b
wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Lotus\fastsite\fastsite.exe.
--- snip ---

All 'bad' executables have their PE IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.SizeOfImage value too
small to fit last section.
Looking at the compiler/linker signatures it seems the executables were created
with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 ~1999.
Such broken executables can't possibly work with modern NT based OS loaders.

You can 'repair' all broken executables by using PE tools like 'LordPE' which
automatically adjusts the PE IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.SizeOfImage value to have
the last section fit too.

Regards

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