[Bug 49942] Games on Battle.net refuse to launch using either wine-5.18 or wine-staging-5.18

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49942

--- Comment #8 from Sveinar Søpler <cybermax at dexter.no> ---
(In reply to nvaert1986 from comment #7)
> > It is basically the same issue i get with World of Warcraft PTR when running
> > > wine-staging-5.10'ish (or thereabouts).
> 
> I just double checked and it's definitely not compiled with mingw, as I do
> not have mingw nor crossdev on my system.
> 
> Do you know wheter it works with a more recent wine-staging version for you
> (like 5.17 or 5.18?) If so I'll file a bug at Gentoo, referencing to this
> bug here.

As i have not tested every possible combination of patches and tweaks to figure
out how it all ties together, i know that WoW PTR does not work with anything
older than wine-staging-5.13 (Ref. this patchset:
https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/commit/d2d0366ce5df254957a96bb6b7eb02c1616dba1d#diff-0969cb35ddd3f06aa256ff7a9b24eab3)

Wine-staging-5.12 did not work. This is when NTDLL was converted to PE, but did
not have the above patchset. You could (and can) still build wine
--without-mingw, but for some reason it does not work.

There are some posts (cba to dig them all up) indicating that it has to do with
copy protection of sorts (for some games). The conclusion should be that it
could work up until wine-staging-5.11, but if you use wine-staging-5.13 or
NEWER, you probably need to compile using --with-mingw.

Gentoo seems to have had this "force-disabled" due to some bug back with
wine-4.7, so i cannot tell if its fixable by just editing your ebuild conf
manually?

Could you try to install mingw-w64, then edit the ebuild
(/var/db/package-manager/repos/wine/wine-staging-5.18.ebuild ?? or wherever it
is) manually, and change the line:

--without-mingw # linux LDFLAGS leak in mingw32: bug #685172
to
--with-mingw # linux LDFLAGS leak in mingw32: bug #685172

Just to see if it compiles?

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