Any advice on how to debug this?

Andreas Mohr andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Wed Jul 10 16:03:19 CDT 2002


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:11:59PM -0700, Medland, Bill wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexandre Julliard [mailto:julliard at winehq.com]
> > 
> > That's a common problem with Win9x dlls. It cannot be completely fixed
> > because we don't control the layout of our address space; there are
> > some hacks that could be done in the loader to make it less likely to
> > happen, but I'm not convinced it is worth the trouble. Our efforts
> > would probably be better spent making sure the builtin versions of the
> > offending dlls work properly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alexandre Julliard
> > julliard at winehq.com
> > 
> Thanks Alexandre.  I guess the lesson is to use NT dlls wherever possible.
No way. Wine still has lots of problems with NT DLLs, since they are...
NT DLLs ;)
Wine's support for NT API is too damn incomplete, so you'll have more luck
with Win9x DLLs in most cases.
Or just choose to not use *any* Windows DLLs. Might help.

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